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Articles on Concept Analysis, Comparative-Historical Analysis,
and Other Articles on Methodology,
by Current and Former Berkeley Graduate Students

These articles emerged from UC Berkeley workshops and projects on these topics. For subsequent publications on related topics, see the authors' web sites. (All files are PDFs.)

• Gerring, John. 1997. "Ideology: A Definitional Analysis." Political Research Quarterly 54, No. 4 (December): 957-994.
• Gould, Andrew. 1999. "Conflicting Imperatives and Concept Formation," Review of Politics 61, No. 3 (Summer): 439-463.
• Johnson, Ollie A., III. 1999. "Pluralist Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective: White Supremacy, Male Supremacy, and Regime Classification." National Political Science Review, Vol. 7: 116-136.
• Kurtz, Marcus J. 2000. "Understanding Peasant Revolution: From Concept to Theory to Case." Theory and Society 29: 93-124.
• Levitsky, Steven. 1998. "Institutionalization and Peronism: The Concept, the Case, and the Case for Unpacking the Concept." Party Politics 4, No. 1: 77-92.
• Schneider, Aaron. 2003. "Decentralization: Conceptualization and Measurement." Studies in Comparative International Development 38, No. 3: 32-56.
• Straus, Scott. 2001. "Contested Meanings and Conflicting Imperatives: A Conceptual Analysis of Genocide. Journal of Genocide Research 3, No. 3: 349-375.
• Mazzuca, "Rent Seeking." Forthcoming in Mark Bevir, ed., Encyclopedia of Governance. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

• Gould, Andrew. 1999. "Origins of Liberalism: Concepts and Explanations." In Andrew Gould, Origins of Liberal Dominance: State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Mahoney, James. 2001. "Path-Dependent Explanations of Regime Change: Central America in Comparative Perspective." Studies in Comparative International Development 36, No. 1: 111-141.
• Scully, Timothy R. 1992. "Cleavages, Critical Junctures, and Party Evolution in Chile: Constituting and Reconstituting the Center." Pp. 1-19 in Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chile. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Yashar, Deborah J. 1997. "Introduction." Pp. 1-25 in Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Boas, Taylor. 2007. "Conceptualizing Continuity and Change: The Composite-Standard Model of Path Dependence." Journal of Theoretical Politics 19, No. 1 (January): 33-54.

• Collier, Ruth Berins and Sebastián Mazzuca. "Does History Repeat?" In Charles Tilly and Robert E. Goodin (eds.). Contextual Political Analysis. Vol. X of Robert E. Goodin (ed.). The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• Elkins, Zachary. 2000. "Gradations of Democracy? Empirical Tests of Alternative Conceptuali-zations," American Journal of Political Science 44, No. 2 (April): 293-300.
• Fearon, James. 1991. "Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science." World Politics 43 (January): 169-195.
• Lieberman, Evan. 2001. "Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis: A Specification of Periodization Strategies." Comparative Political Studies 34, No. 9 (November): 1011-1035.
• Mahoney, James. 1999. "Nominal, Ordinal, and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis." American Journal of Sociology 104, No. 4 (January): 1154-1196.
• Seawright, Jason. 2002. "Testing for Necessary and/or Sufficient Causation: Which Cases are Relevant?" Political Analysis 10 (May): 178-193. (Two comments and a reply from the same issue are also available: Braumoeller and Goertz 2002, Clarke 2002, Seawright reply 2002)
• Seawright, Jason. 2004. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis vis-à-vis Regression." Studies in Comparative International Development (forthcoming).
• Snyder, Richard. 2001. "Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method." Studies in Comparative International Development 36, No. 1 (Spring): 93-110.