Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: critical comparisons
- 2 National revivals and violence
- 3 Mechanisms and structures in comparisons
- 4 Comparative methodologies in the analysis of anthropological data
- 5 The role of comparison in the light of the theory of culture
- 6 Case studies of contemporary job loss
- 7 Defining the contours of an Islamic reform movement: an essay in successive contrasts
- 8 Producing an analytic narrative
- 9 Political consciousness on Boa Ventura: 1967 and 1989 compared
- 10 Comparisons in the context of a game theoretic argument
- 11 The role of microhistories in comparative studies
- List of references
- Index of authors
- Subject index
8 - Producing an analytic narrative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: critical comparisons
- 2 National revivals and violence
- 3 Mechanisms and structures in comparisons
- 4 Comparative methodologies in the analysis of anthropological data
- 5 The role of comparison in the light of the theory of culture
- 6 Case studies of contemporary job loss
- 7 Defining the contours of an Islamic reform movement: an essay in successive contrasts
- 8 Producing an analytic narrative
- 9 Political consciousness on Boa Ventura: 1967 and 1989 compared
- 10 Comparisons in the context of a game theoretic argument
- 11 The role of microhistories in comparative studies
- List of references
- Index of authors
- Subject index
Summary
Of course the method of presentation must differ in form from that of inquiry. The latter has to appropriate the material in detail, to analyze its different forms of development, to trace out their inner connection. Only after this work is done, can the actual movement be adequately described.
Karl Marx, “Afterword to the Second German Edition,” Capital: 301Democratic governments have a strong interest in promoting behavioral consent, compliance with the demands of government that is freely given. Behavioral consent lowers the transaction costs of governance by reducing the need for monitoring and enforcement, but it is also a sine qua non of democracy. Without a considerable degree of consent, a regime is not, by definition, a democracy. But how do we know consent — or its absence — when we see it? Compliance is an incomplete surrogate. People comply for all kinds of reasons: fear of sanctions from governments or other citizens, economic returns, altruism, and ethical commitments that are rationally and strategically implemented. Although standard rational choice offers models of variation in compliance based on tangible incentives and sanctions, rational choice theorists generally fail to capture the ethical elements in the citizen's decision to behaviorally consent, particularly when the costs to the individual appear to exceed the benefits. As with studies of voting and some forms of collective action, standard rational choice accounts offer more guidance to understanding why people do not cooperate than why they do.
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- Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture , pp. 152 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999
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