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1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford studies in democratization
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Oxford studies in democratization.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-281) and index. |
| Contents |
The study of politics and democracy: touchstones of a research agenda / Gerardo L. Munck -- Reconceptualizing democratization: access to power versus exercise of power / Sebastián L. Mazzuca -- Neo-Madisonian theory and Latin American institutions / Royce Carroll, Matthew Søberg Shugart -- Thickening thin concepts: issues in large-n data generation / Michael Coppedge -- Classifying political regimes in Latin America, 1945-2004 / Scott Mainwaring, Daniel Brinks, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán -- Theory building and hypothesis testing: large-n versus small-n research on democratization / Michael Coppedge -- Democracy and growth: a case study in failed causal inference / Jason Seawright -- Why regions of the world are important: regional specificities and region-wide diffusion of democracy / Scott Mainwaring, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán -- Democracy, dictatorship, and economic development: a model of reference-dependent choices with experimental data / Andrew C. Gould, Andrew J. Maggio. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
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. - ;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 dem. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Latin America.
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Democracy. |
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Latin America. |
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Latin America -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Electronic books.
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Munck, Gerardo L. (Gerardo Luis), 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Regimes and democracy in Latin America. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 0199219893 0199219907 (DLC) 2006102381 (OCoLC)77486005 |
| ISBN |
9780191527500 (electronic book) |
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0191527505 (electronic book) |
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0199219893 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0199219907 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780199219896 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780199219902 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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