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Regimes and democracy in Latin America : theories and methods /

The volume will be of interest to readers seeking to understand debates about democracy in developing societies and to grasp the concepts, theories and methods that are currently being developed to study Latin American politics. - ;This volume focuses on democracy in Latin America, and both assesses...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Munck, Gerardo L. (Gerardo Luis), 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Colección:Oxford studies in democratization.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The study of politics and democracy: touchstones of a research agenda / Gerardo L. Munck
  • Reconceptualizing democratization: access to power versus exercise of power / Sebastián L. Mazzuca
  • Neo-Madisonian theory and Latin American institutions / Royce Carroll, Matthew Søberg Shugart
  • Thickening thin concepts: issues in large-n data generation / Michael Coppedge
  • Classifying political regimes in Latin America, 1945-2004 / Scott Mainwaring, Daniel Brinks, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
  • Theory building and hypothesis testing: large-n versus small-n research on democratization / Michael Coppedge
  • Democracy and growth: a case study in failed causal inference / Jason Seawright
  • Why regions of the world are important: regional specificities and region-wide diffusion of democracy / Scott Mainwaring, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
  • Democracy, dictatorship, and economic development: a model of reference-dependent choices with experimental data / Andrew C. Gould, Andrew J. Maggio.