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The twin uncertainty of authoritarian regimes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
Authoritarian rulers have a twin problem of uncertainty. They have a problem of “institutional uncertainty.” Their survival in power is insecure. And they have a problem of “informational uncertainty.” The foundations of ...
The quantitative skeleton of comparative politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
On the basis of a broad sample of quantitative studies in comparative politics, published in leading academic journals between 1989 and 2007, this paper offers an empirical radiography of data usage in comparative empirical ...
Concept formation in political science
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2010)
Concepts are central to the enterprise of political science. If we fail to develop clear and precise concepts, our theoretical insights and empirical discoveries will fail to be clear and precise, too. This paper reviews ...