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This article provides an overview of recent developments in historical institutionalism. First, it reviews some distinctions that are commonly drawn between the historical and the rational choice variants of institutionalism and shows that there are…
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In an earlier attempt to analyze the nature and value of the comparative method in political research (Lijphart, 1971), I did not present an unambiguously delimited definition of it. For this shortcoming I have been justly criticized (see…
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While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises…
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Multiplicative interaction models are common in the quantitative political science literature. This is so for good reason. Institutional arguments frequently imply that the relationship between political inputs and outcomes varies depending on the…
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The conditions associated with the existence and stability of democratic society have been a leading concern of political philosophy. In this paper the problem is attacked from a sociological and behavioral standpoint, by presenting a number of…
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Domestic politics and international relations are often inextricably entangled, but existing theories (particularly "state-centric" theories) do not adequately account for these linkages. When national leaders must win ratification (formal or…
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It is increasingly common for social scientists to describe political processes as "path dependent." The concept, however, is often employed without careful elaboration. This article conceptualizes path dependence as a social process grounded in a…
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Seminal discussion of different 'comparative methods'. He distinguishes between the case study, the comparative and the statistical method, the latter being the superior to the second one because it is closer to the experimental method. On page 691…
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Realismo offensivo, con 3 possibili pattern. ma anche 5 punti condivisi dal realismo. p14
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The claim that international institutions can transform state interests is central to neoliberal challenges to the realist assumption that "process" (interaction and learning among states) cannot fundamentally affect system "structure" (anarchy and…
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Scholars routinely make claims that presuppose the validity of the observations and measurements that operationalize their concepts. Yet, despite recent advances in political science methods, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to…
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This article reformulates liberal international relations (JR.) theory in a nonideological and nonutopian form appropriate to empirical social science. Liberal IR theory elaborates the insight that state-society relationsthe relationship of states…
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Contemporary theories of politics tend to portray politics as a reflection of society, political phenomena as the aggregate consequences of individual behavior, action as the result of choices based on calculated self-interest, history as efficient…
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The author claims that the core assumptions of the classical transitology do not hold any longer: 1) not all countries that move from autocracy do so in a clear democratic direction, 2) Some of the most promising cases did not follow the standard…
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Research on democratic party competition in the formal spatial tradition of Downs and the comparative-historical tradition of Lipset and Rokkan assumes that linkages of accountability and responsiveness between voters and political elites work…
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When it was first published, DESIGNING SOCIAL INQUIRY, by political scientists Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, at once struck chords of controversy. As it became one of the best-selling methodology books in memory, it continued to spark…
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The authors show that economic development increases the probability that a country will undergo a transition to democracy. These results contradict the finding of Przeworski and his associates, that development causes democracy to last but not to…
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