Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences

JamesMahoneyisacomparative-historicalresearcherwithinterestsinsocioeconomicdevelopment,politicalregimes,andmethodology.HismostrecentbooksareColonialismandPostcolonialDevelopment:SpanishAmericainComparativePerspective(2010)andExplainingInstitutionalChange:Ambiguity,Agency,andPower(2010;co-editedwithKathleenThelen).HeisalsotheauthorofTheLegaciesofLiberalism:PathDependenceandPoliticalRegimesinCentralAmerica(2001)andco-editorofComparative-HistoricalAnalysisintheSocialSciences(2003;withDietrichRueschemeyer).HisbookColonialismandPostcolonialDevelopment:SpanishAmericainComparativePerspectivewonfourmajorawardsfromtheAmericanSociologicalAssociationandAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation.HisarticlepublicationsfeatureworkonpoliticalandsocioeconomicdevelopmentinLatinAmerica,pathdependenceinhistoricalsociology,andcausalinferenceinsmall-Nanalysis.MahoneyisapastPresidentoftheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation(APSA)SectionforQualitativeandMulti-MethodResearch,andheisChairoftheAmericanSociologicalAssociationSectionforComparativeandHistoricalSociology.DietrichRueschemeyerisaBrownprofessorofsociologyemeritusandCharlesC.TillinghastJr.'32ProfessorofInternationalStudiesemeritus.Hecurrentlyworksonstateformationandhistoricalantecedentsofsocioeconomicdevelopment.HewasoneofthefoundersofBrown'sCenterfortheComparativeStudyofDevelopment,whichmergedintotheWatsonInstitute.From1997to2002,ProfessorRueschemeyerledtheInstitute'sPoliticalEconomyandDevelopmentProgram.HisbooksincludeUsableTheory:AnalyticToolsforSocialandPoliticalResearch(PrincetonUniversityPress,forthcomingin2009);ComparativeHistoricalAnalysisintheSocialSciences(CambribgeUniversityPress,2003,co-editedwithJ.Mahoney);ParticipationandDemocracyEastandWest:ComparisonsandInterpretations(M.E.Sharpe,1998,co-editedwithM.RueschemeyerandB.Wittrock);States,SocialKnowledge,andtheOriginsofModernSocialPolicies(PrincetonUniversityPress,1996,co-editedwithTh.Skocpol);CapitalistDevelopmentandDemocracy(UniversityofChicagoPress,1992,co-authoredwithE.H.StephensandJ.D.Stephen);PowerandtheDivisionofLabour(StanfordUniversityPress,1986);andBringingtheStateBackIn(CambridgeUniversityPress,1985,co-editedwithP.B.EvansandTh.Skocpol).HereceivedhisdoctorateinsociologyattheUniversityofCologne.BeforecomingtoBrown,hetaughtattheUniversityofCologne,DartmouthCollege,andtheUniversityofToronto.HealsotaughtattheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem,theFreeUniversityofBerlin,andtheFreeUniversityofBrussels.