10.6084/m9.figshare.7312196.v1
Matthijs Bogaards
Matthijs
Bogaards
Case-based research on democratization
Taylor & Francis Group
2018
Methodology
qualitative research
case studies
comparisons
database
process tracing
2018-11-07 22:34:15
Dataset
https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Case-based_research_on_democratization/7312196
<p>Empirical research on democratization is dominated by case studies and small-N comparisons. This article is a first attempt to take stock of qualitative case-based research on democratization. It finds that most articles use methods implicitly rather than explicitly and are disconnected from the burgeoning literature on case-based methodology. This makes it difficult to summarize the substantive findings or to evaluate the contributions of the various approaches to our knowledge of democratic transition and consolidation. There is much to gain from a closer collaboration between methods experts and empirical researchers of democratization.</p>