Bringing in China: Insights for Building Comparative Political Theory

In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 295-328

Abstract

What do comparativists have to gain by reading recent work on China? In this article, I focus specifically on the ways in which scholarship on China can contribute to the task of theory building in comparative politics. I identify two areas that could reap particularly high benefits from considering scholarship on China—comparative political development and the political behavior of development—and I discuss some of the specific contributions that China scholarship can make to building comparative theory in these areas.