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2 Comp. Pol. Stud. 3 (1969-1970)

handle is hein.journals/compls2 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION IN THE expanding and increasingly complex universe of the social sciences, studies of the relation of social structure, party systems and voting behavior have achieved a distinctive and significant position. They are truly interdisciplinary, requiring an understanding of political institu- tions, sociology, social psychology, and related bodies of knowledge if one is to reach substantively important and methodologically interesting con- clusions. Comparative analysis is specially appropriate because of the relatively high degree of precision that one may hope to achieve in the measurement of major'variables. To compare all is not, however, to equate all. Comparison enables one not only to see to what extent and under what circumstances hypothetically comparable cross-national phenomena are similar, but also to observe and explain why they sometimes differ. Since its inception, the Committee on Political Sociology of the Inter- national Sociological Association has encouraged this work, under the leadership of S. M. Lipset and Stein Rokkan. A series of conferences have been held in Europe and America, beginning in Bergen in 1961. Initially, the conferences provided a means of meeting national experts working on common problems in different countries. At a conference at Cambridge University in December, 1965, a decision was taken to attempt more explicitly comparative work, and Richard Rose was asked to head a work- ing committee on social structure and party systems. In order to make the

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