Regimes and democracy in Latin America : theories and methods
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書誌事項
Regimes and democracy in Latin America : theories and methods
(Oxford studies in democratization / series editor, Laurence Whitehead)
Oxford University Press, 2007
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This volume focuses on democracy in Latin America, and both assesses the state of current knowledge on the topic and identifies new research frontiers in the study of Latin American politics. It provides an overview of research agendas and strategies used in the literature over the past four decades. It tackles a series of central questions-What is democracy? Is democracy an absolute value? Are current conceptualizations of democracy adequate? How and why does democracy work or fail in Latin America?-and spells out the implications of answers to these questions for current research agendas. It distinguishes between qualitative and quantitative approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of democracy, and presents a dataset on political regimes and democracy that illustrates how the differences between these two standard approaches might be overcome. Finally, it evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of conventional methods used to generate and test explanations of the causes and consequences of democracy, and proposes alternative ways to advance ongoing substantive debates given the current state of theory and data.
The contributors are scholars from the United States and Latin America who are experts on Latin America, and who have established reputations as theorists and methodologists. 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.
目次
- Introduction. Research Agendas and Strategies in the Study of Latin American Politics
- 1. The Study of Politics and Democracy: Touchstones of a Research Agenda
- 2. Reconceptualizing Democratization: Access to Power versus Exercise of Power
- 3. Neo-Madisonian Theory and Latin American Institutions
- 4. Thickening Thin Concepts: Issues in Large-N Data Generation
- 5. Classifying Political Regimes in Latin America, 1945-2004
- 6. Theory Building and Hypothesis Testing: Large-N vs. Small-N Research on Democratization
- 7. Democracy and Growth: A Case Study in Failed Causal Inference
- 8. Why Regions of the World Are Important: Regional Specificities and Region-Wide Diffusion of Democracy
- 9. Democracy, Dictatorship and Economic Development: A Model of Reference-Dependent Choices With Experimental Data
- References
- Index
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