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Despite the growing awareness of globalization, the main bulk of empirical work in the social sciences remains within the frames of what Stein Rokkan termed national empiricism. Comparative Social Research aims at furthering the international orientation in the social sciences.

ISSN: 0195-6310

Aims and scope

Responding to a need for international orientation in the social sciences, each volume in this series is concentrated on a specific topic mostly of substantive but also of methodological character.

Typically chapters present two or more cases for comparison: be they nations, regions, organizations or social units at different points of time.

The volumes embrace a broad set of topics such as comparative studies of universities as institutions for production and diffusion of knowledge, family policies, regional cultures, and institutional aspects of work and wage formation.

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