Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
12 - Diversity in comparative political analysis (Challenges in…
12 - Diversity in comparative political analysis
Comparative method
methodological approach, not a technique
btw 2 to 20 cases, careful selection to control exogenous variables
comparative method(experimental method) is different from comparative analysis
Quantitative vs qualitative methods
Qualitative
few cases
relationships
positive : more details, complex relations, cultural and historical particularities
limit : difficult to generalize
Quantitative
superficial : standardized datas, generalisation
how : need datas w/ the same basis
positive : easy generalization, identify deviant cases, quantifies datas / you can test theories
limits : vague, need knowledge of stats
Challenges in comparative analysis
Black box pb
can find relations but not why
Galton's pb
Small-N pb
pb when many factors differentiate the countries
difficult to extract strong conclusions
difficult to find valid causal inferences
problem of selection bias
when selection depends on interest
risk to study only extreme
when selection is not random