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Comparative Case Study Methods in Urban Political Development

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  • Richardson Dilworth

    (Department of Politics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA)

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Over the past decade there has been a concerted attempt among a growing group of authors to bring together the political science subfields of urban politics and American political development (APD). In this paper, I look at specifically how the comparative study of different cities and urban areas might contribute to this intellectual project, beginning with a brief illustrative comparison of Philadelphia and Montreal. I then place that comparison in the larger context of recent literature in postcolonialism, assemblage, and planetary urbanization, which I use to establish what I call an aggregation strategy for constructing variables—or, alternately, for denying the very existence of variables. I then suggest how my aggregation strategy could improve upon urban regime analysis, and inform new directions in studies at the intersection of urban politics and APD.

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  • Richardson Dilworth, 2020. "Comparative Case Study Methods in Urban Political Development," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(10), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:9:y:2020:i:10:p:183-:d:428296
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