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Foreword Foreword K. ISHWARAN York University, Toronto, Canada THE sociology of politics grew out of cross-national comparisons. De TocQUEViLLE compared three societies, the United States, France, and Great Britain. France he knew well as a citizen, the United States and England, as an extensive traveller. It is not only a tribute to the man, but also to his method that many of his insights have an air of freshness and validity about them today. MARX and ENGELS used masses of data from Germany, France, and England. Although they did not travel as often nor as extensively as De Tocque- ville, they established a vast network of correspondents who kept them inti- mately informed of what was going on in several societies. OSTROGORSKI and MICHELS, of whom the latter formulated the Iron Law of Oligarchy (still valid, Trow and Lipset's outstanding work notwithstanding) both travelled a great deal, and knew the condition of the toiling masses in many nations. Even WEBER travelled quite a bit, if not as widely as many others. What he lacked in spatial mobility, however, he made up for by the keen perusal of masses of documentary evidence from a large number of European, Mideast, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Brill
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© 1966 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
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1745-2554
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10.1163/156854266X00016
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Foreword K. ISHWARAN York University, Toronto, Canada THE sociology of politics grew out of cross-national comparisons. De TocQUEViLLE compared three societies, the United States, France, and Great Britain. France he knew well as a citizen, the United States and England, as an extensive traveller. It is not only a tribute to the man, but also to his method that many of his insights have an air of freshness and validity about them today. MARX and ENGELS used masses of data from Germany, France, and England. Although they did not travel as often nor as extensively as De Tocque- ville, they established a vast network of correspondents who kept them inti- mately informed of what was going on in several societies. OSTROGORSKI and MICHELS, of whom the latter formulated the Iron Law of Oligarchy (still valid, Trow and Lipset's outstanding work notwithstanding) both travelled a great deal, and knew the condition of the toiling masses in many nations. Even WEBER travelled quite a bit, if not as widely as many others. What he lacked in spatial mobility, however, he made up for by the keen perusal of masses of documentary evidence from a large number of European, Mideast, and

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1966

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