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The limits to bureaucratic measurement: observation and judgment in comparative political data development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2010)
Standard methodological advice in the social sciences tells us to base our measurement decisions on observations, not judgments. It presupposes that we divide the process of measurement into two phases. In a first judgmental ...
Transitions from electoral authoritarianism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2010)
The recent comparative literature on authoritarian institutions has been tracing the consequences formal institutions bear on the longevity of authoritarian rule. Striving to explain transitions from electoral authoritarian ...
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 ...