James Mahoney
Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Political Science and Sociology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Mahoney is a comparative-historical researcher with interests in national development, political regimes, and qualitative methodology. He is the author of The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and coeditor of Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His work also includes articles on political and socioeconomic development in Latin America, path dependence in historical sociology, and causal inference in small-N analysis. Mahoney is currently president of the Qualitative Methods section (APSA).