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标题：Puzzling Politics: A Methodology for Turning World-Systems Analysis Inside-Out
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作者：Leslie C. Gates ; Mehmet Deniz
期刊名称：Journal of World-Systems Research
电子版ISSN：1076-156X
出版年度：2019
卷号：25
期号：1
页码：59-82
DOI：10.5195/JWSR.2019.667
出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：Can world-systems analysis illuminate politics? Can it help explain why illiberal regimes, outsider parties, and antiimmigrant rhetoric seem to be on the rise? Can it help explain any such national changes that seem destined to shift how nations relate to world markets? Leading surveys of historical sociology seem to say no. We disagree. While there are problems with Wallerstein’s early mode of analyzing politics in the capitalist world-system from the outsidein, historical sociologists have been too quick to dismiss world-systems analysis. We propose an alternative insideout approach anchored in a methodology for selecting what to study: those national political transformations which constitute puzzling instances within a given world-historical political process. We recommend promising theoretical lineages to guide empirical research on the selected puzzle: those that specify the elite social bases of politics. We thereby turn world-systems analysis inside-out. Our inside-out approach advances the project of world-systems analysis as a methodology, rather than a theoretical prescription in several ways. First, it addresses an important but largely overlooked question: how to select what to study. Second, it devises a methodology that can, but does not have to, pair with the methodology of incorporated comparisons. Third, it offers a methodology that stimulates, rather than forecloses, theoretical flexibility and fresh interpretations of politics and the world-economy. We illustrate the strengths of this new approach with three books, two of which won the best book award from ASA’s Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) Section.
关键词：National political transformation;World-historical methodology
其他关键词：National political transformation;World-historical methodology