Analytic Narratives Kindle Edition

If I understand the goal of this book, I appreciate what the authors are trying to do. The book attempts to use history to advance political theory. Some of the chapters are pretty good and use history to examine dynamic processes. However, it doesn't quite work. Others though get lost either in the theory or the history. You get a sense reading some of the chapters that what develops is a theory specific to a particular event, rather than a generalizable theory about politics. Other times, the chapters read no different from a typical political science account. Dan Carpenter put it best in his review of the book - what is actually different about an analytic narrative if it doesn't go beyond the typical analysis, methods, and sources of traditional political science?

The book under review is one of the best books that has appeared in the field of Public Choice Theroy. Myself doing a post-doctoral research on the public choice theory, I found it a necessary reading for not only those interested in the field but also for general scholars of political theory. The author has covered almost all the necessary subjects about which all over the world increasing attention is being paid or needs to be paid. This book is an answer to those who find public choice theory as basically a statistical theory only. The books has actually covered all the philosophical underpinnings of the public choice therory. This books stands out to be a highly recommended reading for scholars of social science. Sukant Vyas Lecturer Department of Political Science Dyal Singh (Evening) College Lodi Road New Delhi - 110003 (India)

Meaty, interesting and very carefully written, I will have a more full view when I have chewed and digested more.