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Democratization and Research Methods

Coppedge, Michael·2012·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9781139016179
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Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. The two themes enhance each other: the democratization literature illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of various methodological approaches, and the critique of methods makes sense of the vast and bewildering democratization field. Michael Coppedge argues that each of the three main approaches in comparative politics - case studies and comparative histories, formal modeling and large-sample statistical analysis - accomplishes one fundamental research goal relatively well: 'thickness', integration and generalization, respectively. Throughout the book, comprehensive surveys of democratization research demonstrate that each approach accomplishes one of these goals well but the other two poorly. Chapters cover conceptualization and measurement, case studies and comparative histories, formal models and theories, political culture and survey research, and quantitative testing. The final chapter summarizes the state of knowledge about democratization and lays out an agenda for multi-method research.

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Authors
Coppedge, M.
Affiliations
University of Notre Dame (US)
Corresponding author
Coppedge, Michael
ORCID
Coppedge, Michael
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2012-06-25
DOI
10.1017/cbo9781139016179
OpenAlex
W653973612
Cited by
303
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 62 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 3
FWCI
19.18
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 10 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Science Research and Education
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
Keywords
democratization, case studies, comparative history, formal modeling, political culture, survey research, multi-method research, generalization

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