Title Statements
- Full title :Democratization and research methods / Michael Coppedge.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: 2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 357 pages : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521830324, 052183032X, 9780521537278, 0521537274
- oclc:ocn862863927
- LC Classification:PLSC JC 2013 620046
Table of Contents
Research methods and democratization. Rationale ; Overview -- Defining and measuring democracy. Operationalizing concepts ; Measurement ; Consequences for analysis ; Thickening thin concepts ; Conclusion -- Criteria for evaluating causal theories. Three fundamental criteria for good theory ; Multiple paths to theory ; Toward theoretical perfection -- Checklists, frameworks, and Boolean analysis. Conventional wisdoms ; What checklists tell us ; Moving beyond checklists : inductive theoretical frameworks ; Boolean analysis ; Appendix : Coding criteria and sources for checklist demonstration -- Case studies and comparative history. Histories and case studies ; The nature of comparative histories ; Evaluation of the comparative-historical approach ; Appendix -- Formal models and theories. Integration ; Positional models of liberalization ; Positional models of transition and survival ; Economic models of transition and survival ; Evaluating formal theories and models ; Conclusion -- Rigor in extensive and intensive testing. Degrees and kinds of rigor ; Trade-offs between extensive and intensive testing ; Toward testing that is extensive and intensive ; Prospects -- Political culture a…
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