The Consolidation of Democracy : Comparing Europe and Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780415468060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 208 str.

Schneider Carst

Opis

Presents new data measuring dimensions of regime transition processes in Latin America, the Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as some former Soviet republics; reassesses some core assumptions of the dominant transition paradigm; discusses general methodological issues involved when investigating causally complex claims in comparative social research and presents fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) as a valuable addition to the methodological tool kit of comparative social scientists. This innovative and important volume will be of interest to political scientists, particularly those with an interest in democracy, democratization, comparative politics and comparative methodology.

O autorze

Carsten Q. Schneider is Associate Professor and founding Director of the Center for Study of Imperfections in Democracy (DISC) at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary.