Democratization and Research Methods: The Methodology of Comparative Politics (Strategies for Social Inquiry) - Softcover

Coppedge, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521537274 ISBN 13: 9780521537278

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Coppedge is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is one of the principal investigators for the Varieties of Democracy Project at the Kellogg Institute, a collaboration producing many new indicators of democracy. He chaired the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Indicators of Democracy and Governance. His first book, Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela, analyzes institutional problems underlying the crisis of Venezuelan democracy. He has published articles on comparative and Latin American politics in the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Democracy, Party Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development and other journals and books. He is a past recipient of grants from Fulbright-Hayes, the Tinker Foundation, the World Society Foundation and the Research Council of Norway, and he has taught at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Princeton University, Yale University, and Georgetown University. Coppedge received his PhD from Yale University in 1988.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521537274
• ISBN 13: 9780521537278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376