Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method

2001/03/01 by Richard Snyder · 1,001 citations
Social Sciences · #Comparative method #Comparative politics #Comparative research #Democracy #Democratization #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Focus (optics) #Political Conflict and Governance #Political science #Politics #Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research #Regional science #Social science #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1007/bf02687586

published in Studies in Comparative International Development 36(1), 93-110 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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