The last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing literature concerning
comparative-historical methods. This literature offers methodological tools for causal and …

This chapter lays out a conception of populism that is fundamentally relational, emphasizing
a socio-cultural dimension that has been much neglected in political studies, together with a …

This review article assesses the accomplishments and limitations of the best of recent
research on democratization and democracy in Europe, South America, and post-Soviet …

Despite their long trajectory in the social sciences, few systematic works analyze how often
and for what purposes focus groups appear in published works. This study fills this gap by …

Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male
dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book …

Set-theoretic methods and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in particular are case-
based methods. There are, however, only few guidelines on how to combine them with …

In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs,
pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks to their handheld …

In the wake of the Cold War, democracy has gained the status of a mantra. Yet there is no
consensus about how to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful …

Despite repeated calls for the use of “mixed methods” in comparative analysis, political
scientists have few systematic guides for carrying out such work. This paper details a unified …

A comprehensive and integrated framework for the analysis of data is offered and used to
assess data sets on democracy. The framework first distinguishes among three challenges …