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James Mahoney, "After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research," World Politics 62:1 (January 2010), pp. 120-147. View Online

James Mahoney, Erin Kimball, and Kendra Koivu, "The Logic of Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences," Comparative Political Studies 42:1 (January 2009), pp. 114-146. View Online

James Mahoney, "Toward a Unified Theory of Causality," Comparative Political Studies 41:4/5 (April/May 2008): 412-436. View Online

James Mahoney, "Qualitative Methods and Comparative Politics," Comparative Political Studies 40:2 (February 2007): 122-144. View Online

James Mahoney, "Debating the State of Comparative Politics: Views from Qualitative Research." Comparative Political Studies 40:1 (January 2007): 32-38. View Online

James Mahoney, "On the Second Wave of Historical Sociology, 1970s-Present," International Journal of Comparative Sociology 47:5 (2006): 371-377. View Online

James Mahoney and Gary Goertz, "A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research," Political Analysis 14:3 (Summer 2006): 227-249. View Online

Matthew Lange, James Mahoney, and Matthias vom Hau, "Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies," American Journal of Sociology 111:5 (March 2006): 1412-1462. View Online

James Mahoney and Daniel Schensul, "Historical Context and Path Dependence," in Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly, eds., Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). View Online

Kirk Bowman, Fabrice Lehoucq, and James Mahoney, "Measuring Political Democracy: Case Expertise, Data Adequacy, and Central America," Comparative Political Studies 38:8 (October 2005): 939-970. View Online

Gary Goertz and James Mahoney, "Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy-Set Analysis," Sociological Methods and Research 33:4 (May 2005), pp. 497-538. View Online

Aaron Katz, Matthias vom Hau, and James Mahoney, "Explaining the Great Reversal in Spanish America: Fuzzy-Set Analysis Versus Statistical Analysis," Sociological Methods and Research 33:4 (May 2005), pp. 539-573. View Online

James Mahoney, "Revisiting General Theory in Historical Sociology," Social Forces 83:3 (December 2004), pp. 459-490. View Online

James Mahoney and Gary Goertz, "The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Qualitative Research," American Political Science Review 98:4 (November 2004), pp. 653-670. View Online

James Mahoney, "Comparative-Historical Methodology," Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 30, edited by Karen S. Cook and John Hagan (2004), pp. 81-101. View Online

James Mahoney, "Long-Run Development and the Legacy of Colonialism in Spanish America." American Journal of Sociology 109:1 (2003), pp. 51-106. View Online

James Mahoney, "Path-Dependent Explanations of Regime Change: Central America in Comparative Perspective," Studies in Comparative International Development, 36:1 (Spring 2001), pp. 111-141. Published in Spain as: "Los patones de dependencia en los cambios de regimen: America Central en perspectiva comparada." Araucaria 4:7 (2002), pp. 133-166.
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James Mahoney, "Beyond Correlational Analysis: Recent Innovations in Theory and Method," Sociological Forum 16:3 (2001), pp. 575-593. View Online

James Mahoney, "Radical, Reformist, and Aborted Liberalism: Origins of National Regimes in Central America," Journal of Latin American Studies 33:2 (May 2001), pp. 221-256. View Online

James Mahoney, "Rational Choice Theory and the Comparative Method: An Emerging Synthesis?" Studies in Comparative International Development 35:2 (Summer 2000), pp. 83-94. View Online

James Mahoney, "Path Dependence in Historical Sociology," Theory and Society 29:4 (August 2000), pp. 507-548. View Online

James Mahoney, "Strategies of Causal Inference in Small-N Analysis," Sociological Methods and Research 28: 4 (May 2000), pp. 387-424. View Online

Dietrich Rueschemeyer and James Mahoney, "A Neo-Utilitarian Theory of Class?" American Journal of Sociology 105: 6 (May 2000), pp. 1583-1591. View Online

James Mahoney and Michael Ellsberg, "Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: A Clarification and Methodological Critique," Journal of Historical Sociology 12: 4 (December 1999), pp. 422-436. View Online

James Mahoney and Richard Snyder, "Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of Regime Change," Studies in Comparative International Development 34: 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 3-32. View Online

Richard Snyder and James Mahoney, "The Missing Variable: Institutions and the Study of Regime Change," Comparative Politics 32:1 (October 1999), pp. 103-122. View Online

James Mahoney, "Nominal, Ordinal, and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis," American Journal of Sociology 104:4 (January 1999), pp. 1154-1196. View Online

Ruth Berins Collier and James Mahoney, "Adding Collective Actors to Collective Outcomes: Labor and Recent Democratization in South America and Southern Europe," Comparative Politics 29:3 (April 1997), pp. 285-303. Reprinted in Lisa Anderson, ed., Transitions to Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). View Online

David Collier and James Mahoney, "Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research," World Politics 49 (October 1996), pp. 56-91. View Online

Articles in Edited Volumes

James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen, "A Gradual Theory of Institutional Change," in James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen, eds., Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

James Mahoney and P. Larkin Terrie, "The Proper Relationship of Comparative-Historical Analysis to Statistical Analysis: Subordination, Integration, or Separation?" in David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin, eds., The Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009), pp. 410-423.

Gary Goertz and James Mahoney, "Scope in Case-Study Research," in David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin, eds., The Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009), pp. 307-317.

James Mahoney and P. Larkin Terrie, "Comparative-Historical Analysis in Contemporary Political Science," in Henry Brady, Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, and David Collier, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

James Mahoney, "The Elaboration Model and Necessary Causes," in Gary Goertz and Jack Levy, eds., Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 281-306.

James Mahoney and Celso M. Villegas, "Historical Enquiry and Comparative Politics," in Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

James Mahoney, "Analyzing Path Dependence: Lessons from the Social Sciences," in Andreas Wimmer and Reinhart Kossler, eds., Understanding Change: Models, Methodologies, and Metaphors (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

James Mahoney, "Combining Institutionalisms: Liberal Reform and Critical Junctures in Central America," in Ira Katznelson and Barry Weingast, eds., Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).

James Mahoney and Matthias vom Hau, "Colonial States and Economic Development in Spanish America," in Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., States and Development: Historical Antecedent of Stagnation and Advance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 92-116.

James Mahoney, "Jack Goldstone," in George Ritzer, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Theory (New York: Sage Publications, 2004), pp. 339-341.

David Collier, James Mahoney, and Jason Seawright, "Claiming Too Much: Warnings about Selection Bias," in Henry E. Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), pp. 85-102.

James Mahoney, "Structured, Focused Comparison, " in Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan E. Bryman, Tim Futing Liao, eds., Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (New York: Sage, 2003).

James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, "Comparative Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas," in James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 3-38.

James Mahoney, "Knowledge Accumulation in Comparative Historical Analysis: The Case of Democracy and Authoritarianism," in James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 131-174.

James Mahoney and Richard Snyder, "Integrative Strategies for the Study of Regime Change," in Stein Larsen, ed., The Challenges of Theories on Democracy: Elaborations over New Trends in Transitology (Boulder, CO: Social Science Monograph Series, 2000), pp. 180-207.