Introduction: Islamist Turns, Ideational Perspective, and Comparative Analysis
摘要
This chapter has three sections corresponding to, and elaborating on, the descriptive, explanatory, and sampling aspects of the research. The first section constructs the dependent variable by offering a typology of Islamist turns. This was followed by a discussion, in the second section, of the political ideologyPolitical ideology or ideologies perspective in dialogue with neo-institutionalist perspectives to explain the cross-national variation. The third section deals with methodological issues in selecting and comparing the four country cases.