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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Establishing Benchmarks -- 1 Introduction: The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science -- 2 A Quantitative Analysis of the Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science -- Part 2 Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Rights: Canada's Comparative Advantage -- 3 Is Canadian Multiculturalism Parochial? Canadian Contributions to Theorizing Justice and Ethnocultural Diversity -- 4 Canada as Counternarrative: Multiculturalism, Recognition, and Redistribution -- 5 Canada's Contribution to the Comparative Study of Rights and Judicial Review -- 6 Marketing Canadian Pluralism in the International Arena -- Part 3 Federalism and Multilevel Governance: Canada's Comparative Resurgence -- 7 Is the Secret to Have a Good Dentist? Canadian Contributions to the Study of Federalism in Divided Societies -- 8 Working around the American Model: Canadian Federalism and the European Union -- 9 Empirical Evidence and Pragmatic Explanations: Canada's Contributions to Comparative Federalism -- Part 4 Political Parties and Public Policy: Canada's Comparative Potential -- 10 What's So Bad about Cultivating Our Own Theoretical Gardens? The Study of Political Parties in Canada -- 11 Canadian Voting Behaviour in Comparative Perspective -- 12 Policy Networks and Policy Communities: Conceptualizing State-Societal Relationships in the Policy Process -- 13 How Can Comparative Political Economy Explain Variable Change? Lessons for, and from, Canada -- Conclusion: Are We on the Right Track? -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Key Texts -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 The Importance of Comparison -- Forms of comparative analysis -- Types of comparative studies -- The content of comparisons -- Cross-time comparisons -- Conclusion -- 2 The Logic of Comparison -- Comparative research design -- Research design and case selection -- Levels of analysis -- Threats to validity in non-experimental research -- Conclusion -- 3 The Number of Cases and Which Ones? -- Strategies with different numbers of cases -- Small-N research in general -- Conclusion -- 4 Measurement and Bias -- The traveling problem -- Typologies -- Triangulation -- Nominal categories -- Ideal-type analysis and measurement -- Conclusion -- 5 The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics -- Levels of explanation -- Macro-level theories -- Meso-level theories -- Micro-level theories -- State and society -- Conclusion -- 6 The Case Study -- Improving case research -- Case studies -- Conducting case research -- Defining cases -- The purposes of case research -- The case as process -- Issues in case study research -- The role of the case researcher -- Conclusion -- 7 Building on Case Analysis -- Meta-analysis -- Boolean algebra and cumulation -- Conclusion -- 8 Events Data and Change Over Time -- Events data -- The method -- Relationships with other methods -- Potential problems -- Conclusion -- 9 Statistical Analysis -- Statistical modes of explanation in comparative politics -- The question of time -- The problem of context -- Coping with a small N -- Secondary analysis -- Conclusion -- 10 The Future of Comparative Politics -- Territory or function: choices in comparison -- Theory and the restriction of perspective -- Methods and the restriction of vision -- The exceptional and the ordinary: what can we learn from each? -- Modesty, but hope -- The future of comparative politics.