Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences: ALIGNING ONTOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS

摘要: Some of the liveliest debates about methodology in social sciences center on comparative research. This essay concentrates politics, a field often defined by reference to use particular “comparative method,” but it also bears sociology, where there is active controversy methodological issues. I term “methodology” refer means scholars employ increase confidence that inferences they make and political world are valid. The most important these causal relationships, object assertions one variable or event ( x ) exerts effect another y ). One curious features contemporary pay more attention than issues ontology. “Ontology” refers character as actually is. Accordingly, fundamental assumptions nature especially relationships within world. If consists techniques for making observations relations, an ontology premises deep structures from which analysis begins without theories would not sense. At level, how we imagine be.