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Field Research in Political Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 471

Field Research in Political Science

This book explains how field research contributes value to political science by exploring scholars' experiences, detailing exemplary practices, and asserting key principles.

The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 587

The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies

This volume analyzes how enduring democracy amid longstanding inequality engendered inclusionary reform in contemporary Latin America.

Field Research in Political Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 471

Field Research in Political Science

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of fieldwork in the discipline based on a large-scale survey and extensive interviews. Good fieldwork takes diverse forms yet follows a set of common practices and principles. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides intellectual and practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field and making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments.

Consequential Courts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 453

Consequential Courts

  • Categories: Law

Maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and how they matter in the political life of these nations.

Beyond High Courts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

Beyond High Courts

Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America is a much-needed volume that will make a significant contribution to the growing fields of comparative law and politics and Latin American legal institutions. The book moves these research agendas beyond the study of high courts by offering theoretically and conceptually rich empirical analyses of a set of critical supranational, national, and subnational justice sector institutions that are generally neglected in the literature. The chapters examine the region’s large federal systems (Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico), courts in Chile and Venezuela, and the main supranational tribunal in the region, the Inter-American Court of Human Ri...

High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil

  • Categories: Law

This study analyzes how elected leaders and high courts in Argentina and Brazil interact over economic governance.

Reorganizing Popular Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Reorganizing Popular Politics

"A comparative analysis of lower-class interest politics in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela. Examines the proliferation of associations in Latin America's popular-sector neighborhoods, in the context of the historic problem of popular-sector voice and political representation in the region"--Provided by publisher.

The Production of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 569

The Production of Knowledge

A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, including problems of transparency, replication, and reliability. Rather than focusing on individual studies or methods, this book examines how collective institutions and practices have (often unintended) impacts on the production of knowledge.

Courts in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Courts in Latin America

To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors demonstrate that there is widespread variation in the performance of Latin America's constitutional courts. In accounting for this variation, the contributors push forward ongoing debates about what motivates judges; whether institutions, partisan politics and public support shape inter-branch relations; and the importance of judicial attitudes and legal culture. The authors deploy a range of methods, including qualitative case studies, paired country comparisons, statistical analysis and game theory.