Titlebook: Comparative Politics; Theory and Methods B. Guy Peters Textbook 1998Latest edition B. Guy Peters 1998 comparative politics.government.polit

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The Importance of Comparison,l science, comparison is the principal method. Political science can be an experimental science only rarely, and then almost always in highly contrived circumstances. Researchers are sometimes able to have students or other more or less willing subjects participate in games or experiments, but those

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The Number of Cases,e of statistical analysis in contemporary political science, with the consequent need to have relatively large ‘samples’ of countries in order to be able to meet the assumptions and requirements of statistical analyses. In some ways, however, this concentration on the demands of particular statistic

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Measurement and Bias,sis is to be at all meaningful then we must be sure that the same terms mean the same things in the different contexts within which the research is conducted. In particular, the comparative analyst must be concerned with the problem of establishing equivalent meaning for concepts within different so

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