1. Comparative-historical analysis: achievements and agendas James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Part I. Accumulation of Research: 2. Comparative-historical analysis and knowledge accumulation in the study of revolutions Jack A. Goldstone

3. What we know about the development of social policy: comparative and historical research in comparative and historical perspective Edwin Amenta

4. Knowledge accumulation in comparative-historical research: the case of democracy and authoritarianism James Mahoney

Part II. Analytic Tools: 5. Big, slow-moving, and ... invisible: macro-social processes in the study of comparative politics Paul Pierson

6. How institutions evolve: insights from comparative-historical analysis Kathleen Thelen

7. Uses of network tools in comparative-historical research Roger V. Gould

8. Periodization and preferences: reflections on purposive action in comparative-historical social science Ira Katznelson

Part III: Issues of Method: 9. Can one or a few cases yield gains? Dietrich Rueschemeyer

10. Strategies of causal assessment in comparative-historical analysis James Mahoney

11. Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics

12. Doubly engaged social science: the promise of comparative-historical analysis Theda Skocpol.