Comparative international community power research reintroduces and intensifies the problem of research design and method with which the researcher is confronted in comparative research within the United States. A number of design problems must be confronted in order to ensure accumulative findings: (1) selection of hypotheses and propositions for test; (2) construction of cross-sectional designs such that the researcher or others can use his concepts and methods for longitudinal study at a later time; (3) selection of cities appropriate for the design; (4) a standardization of methodology to include some combination of the positional, reputational, and decisional approaches; (5) a complementary standardization of power structure models. These problems are illustrated by original research experiences in Seattle, Washington; Bristol, England; Cordoba, Argentina; and Lima, Peru.