A life in comparative politics
Chasing questions in five continents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6297408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred Stepan (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 691-705 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0192512116661936 |
| OpenAlex | W2551296131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Why, as a comparativist, did I find it compelling to carry out field research in over 20 countries on five different continents? Because comparative politics should be question-driven, not driven by methodology or existing data. Good questions led to new countries. My book on how Brazilian civilian elites were complicit in coups led to a comparative book on how to transform such civil–military relations in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. My colleague Juan J Linz and I broadened the scope of questions of democratic transition theory by adding post-communist countries to the transition set. New questions and relevant new countries continue to emerge. What to do if more than one nation exists in a polity pursuing ‘nation-state’ policies? I helped create the concept of ‘state-nation’ and documented how ‘multiple but complementary identities’ were fostered in India. How did polities that respected the ‘twin tolerations’ emerge in Muslim-majority Indonesia, Senegal, and Tunisia
Civil society · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Scope (computer science · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America
Rethinking Military Politics
The Military in Politics
Subversive Institutions
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Crafting State-Nations
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
The Early Years of Central European University as a Network
Rethinking secularism
Multiple but Complementary, Not Conflictual, Leaderships
The Process of Government
Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation
The Perils of Presidentialism
India, Sri Lanka, and the Majoritarian Danger
India's Watershed Vote
"Religion, Democracy, and the "Twin Tolerations
Rituals of Respect
The State and Society
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |