TY - JOUR
T1 - Howard J. Wiarda
T2 - Post-script
AU - Jordan, Esther Skelley
AU - Spanakos, Anthony Petros
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - This essay concludes the symposium by considering Howard J. Wiarda’s topical scholarship on grand theory, corporatism, democratization, and development, in addition to his regional scholarship, which focused on Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian politics but also touched on every other major region of the world, including U.S. politics and foreign policy making. We seek to makes sense of the tensions in Wiarda’s work, especially between his critiques of theoretical determinism and ethnocentrism on the one hand and his continual emphasis on cultural and corporatist explanations of comparative politics, on the other. We argue that he made significant contributions to the field through his service as a public intellectual, mobilization of multiple theoretical perspectives, use of inductive methods, provocative interpretations of comparative politics throughout the world, and accessibility to students and policy makers.
AB - This essay concludes the symposium by considering Howard J. Wiarda’s topical scholarship on grand theory, corporatism, democratization, and development, in addition to his regional scholarship, which focused on Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian politics but also touched on every other major region of the world, including U.S. politics and foreign policy making. We seek to makes sense of the tensions in Wiarda’s work, especially between his critiques of theoretical determinism and ethnocentrism on the one hand and his continual emphasis on cultural and corporatist explanations of comparative politics, on the other. We argue that he made significant contributions to the field through his service as a public intellectual, mobilization of multiple theoretical perspectives, use of inductive methods, provocative interpretations of comparative politics throughout the world, and accessibility to students and policy makers.
KW - Corporatism
KW - Ethnocentrism
KW - Grand theory
KW - Howard J. Wiarda
KW - Latin American politics
KW - U.S. foreign policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055019598&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1086/699639
DO - 10.1086/699639
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055019598
SN - 0032-3497
VL - 50
SP - 697
EP - 704
JO - Polity
JF - Polity
IS - 4
ER -