About the Editor and Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I: Theoretical Issues and Overview; 1. Constructivist Comparative Politics: Foundations and Framework; 2. Toward a Constructivist Comparative Politics; 3. Globalization, the Comparative Method, and Comparing Constructions; 4. The Socially Constructed Contexts of Comparative Politics*; Part II: Case Studies; 5. The Role of the State in Ethnic Conflict: A Constructivist Reassessment; 6. Transnational Flows, Legitimacy, and Syncretic Democracy in Benin; 7. Trading Culture: Identity and Culture Industry Trade Policy in the United States, Canada, and the European Union; 8. The West Is the Best: Occidentalism and Postwar German Reconstruction; Index
