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Looks at the part which has been (and which can be) played by history in the social sciences. Considers why history has at times been ignored by social scientists, how history can shed light on sociological inquiry, and the importance of using history to provide a context for sociological analysis. (RSM)

The new 'democracy producing culture' in some recent theories, treats the 'religious revival' as being necessarily anti-democratic, contrary to the requirements of democracy, and therefore, conservative. Such an analysis suffers from a lack of rigour in the logics of cultures and an amazing omission of the logics of strategies. (SJK)

The reformist and then revivalist movements caused the Muslim elites to redefine themselves in relation to Europe, right from the beginning of the Nineteenth century, so much so that the themes bequeathed by 1789 inevitably structured the intellectual debate. (SJO)

Comparative method in political science is currently going through a critical time, particularly after the failure of developmentalism, and of the classical paradigm of comparative government. This crisis stems from questioning universalism, mono-determinism and the compartmentalism between political science and history. New paradigms are conceived in order to overcome this. (Abstract amended)