International ComparativeSocial Studies -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Hans Joas and Barbro Klein -- WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BROAD HORIZONS? Peter Gärdenfors -- PART ONE The State and the Political -- THE RECONSTITUTION OF THE REALM OF THE POLITICALAND THE PROBLEMATIQUE OF MODERN REGIMESS .N. Eisenstadt -- THE STRANGE HYBRID OF THE EARLY AMERICAN STATE Max M. Edling -- POLICY METRICS UNDER SCRUTINY: THE LEGACY OF NEWPUBLIC MANAGEMENT Daniel Tarschys -- PART TWO History and the Social Sciences -- HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES TODAY Jürgen Kocka -- THE PRESENT POSITION AND PROSPECTS OFSOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- THE CONTINGENCY OF SECULARIZATION: REFLECTIONS ON THE PROBLEM OF SECULARIZATIONIN THE WORK OF REINHART KOSELLECK Hans Joas -- THE MISSING SENTENCE: THE VISUAL ARTS AND THESOCIAL SCIENCES IN MID-NINETEENTH -CENTURY PARIS Wolf Lepenies -- POLITICAL ECONOMY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT: THE CASE OF MALTHUS AND SWEDEN Lars Magnusson -- PROFESSIONALISM AS IDEOLOGY Rolf Torstendahl -- PART THREE Civilizational Studiesand the Comparison of Civilizations -- INTERPRETING HISTORY AND UNDERSTANDING CIVILIZATIONS Johann P. Arnason -- COMPARISON WITHOUT HEGEMONY Sheldon Pollock -- DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSESIN ISLAMICATE CIVILIZATION ANDTHE IMPACT OF MODERNIZATION Said A. Arjomand -- TOWARDS A WORLD SOCIOLOGY OF MODERNITY Peter Wagner -- PART FOUR Cultural and Social Dynamics -- "THE FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY": NOTES ON EVENTS AND CULTURAL TURBULENCE Ulf Hannerz -- CULTURAL LOSS AND CULTURAL RESCUE: LILLIZICKERMAN, OTTILIA ADELBORG, AND THE PROMISES OFTHE SWEDISH HOMECRAFT MOVEMENT1 Barbro Klein -- THE BUDDHIST CONNECTION BETWEENCHINA AND ANCIENT CAMBODIA: ŚRAMANA MANDRA'S VISIT TO JIANKANG1 Wang Bangwei -- AUTOCHTHONOUS CHINESE CONCEPTUAL HISTORYIN A JOCULAR NARRATIVE KEY: THE EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT QÍNG Christoph Harbsmeier.

ON THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OFNON-CONTAGIOUS BEHAVIOR: THE CASE OFTAX AVOIDANCE AND TAX EVASION Peter Hedström and Rebeca Ibarra -- PART FIVE Universities and the Dilemmas of Higher Education -- VIEWS FROM THE ACROPOLIS AND THE AGORA:CLARK KERR'S INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY Sheldon Rothblatt -- THE GROWING CONFUSION BETWEEN "PRIVATE" AND"PUBLIC" IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION Neil J. Smelser -- THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF QUANTITATIVE MEASURES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SCIENCE Peter Weingart -- THE COMPRESSION OF RESEARCH TIME AND THETEMPORALIZATION OF THE FUTURE Helga Nowotny -- Coda -- BETTER TO BE THAN NOT TO BE? Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek Rabinowicz -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- TABULA GRATULATORIA -- INDEX.