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Agrarian Structure and Political Power. Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America
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newsletter, with articles by Ziblatt, Stephens, Bernhard and Kopstein, Berman, and Snyder.
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Terror and Progress, USSR: Some Sources of Change and Stability in the Soviet Dictatorship
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outlook and approach theories and conjectures with empirical verification.
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Soviet Politics – The Dilemma of Power: The Role of Ideas in Social Change
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State Formation, Regime Change, and Economic Development.
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State Formation, Regime Change, and Economic Development
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Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences.
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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
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758:Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics
560:Bulletin of the Society for Latin American Studies
486:Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays
581:Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics
326:(1966) was the cornerstone to what is now called
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414:Political Power and Social Theory: Seven Studies
361:and the three essays were collected in the book
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492:), Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1998.
468:Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History
302:, attacked the methodological outlook of 1950s
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680: – Theory of large, discontinuous changes
660:. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
551:Huber, Evelyn and Frank Safford (eds.). 1995.
410:Political Power and Social Theory: Six Studies
910:. Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 27, 2005.
597:. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
583:. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
579:Munck, Gerardo L., and Richard Snyder. 2007.
555:. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
239:Moore's academic career began in 1945 at the
429:Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
405:, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1954.
398:, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1950.
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455:, M.E. Sharpe, White Plains, NY, 1978.
357:each authored an essay on the concept of
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686: – Society becoming more democratic
204:He studied Latin, Greek, and history at
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639:. New York: Cambridge University Press.
625:. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
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251:in 1951. He was emerited in 1979.
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197:Early life, education and career
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1100:A Critique of Pure Tolerance
881:Times Higher Education (THE)
621:Skocpol, Theda (ed.). 1998.
421:A Critique of Pure Tolerance
364:A Critique of Pure Tolerance
322:Moore's groundbreaking work
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374:Critique of Pure Reason
266:, as well as historian
249:Russian Research Center
1164:Yale University alumni
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572:Møller, Jørgen. 2017.
562:No. 28 (April): 24-40.
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