The human dimension of comparative research. -- The past and present of comparative politics. -- Gabriel A. Almond: structural functionalism and political development. -- Barrington Moore: The critical spirit and comparative historical analysis. -- Robert A. Dahl: Normative theory, empirical research, and democracy. -- Juan J. Linz: political regimes and the quest for knowledge. -- Samuel P. Huntington: order and conflict in global perpsective. -- Arend Lijphart: political institutions, divided societies, and consociational democracy. -- Guillermo O'Donnell: democratization, political engagement, and agenda-setting research. -- Philippe C. Schmitter: corporatism, democracy, and conceptual traveling. -- James C. Scott: peasants, power, and the art of resistance. -- Alfred Stepan: democratic governance and the craft of case-based research. -- Adam Przeworski: capitalism, democracy, and science. -- Robert H. Bates: markets, politics, and choice. -- David Collier: critical junctures, concepts, and methods. -- David D. Laitin: culture, rationality, and the search for discipline. -- Theda Skocpol: states, revolutions, and the comparative historical imagination.

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