Democracy and Victory: Why Regime Type Hardly Matters

Desch, Michael C.

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“…Since Eckstein's influential essay, the approach has been used in a multitude of studies across several social science disciplines (e.g., Desch, 2002;Goodin & Smitsman, 2000;Kemp, 1986;Reilly & Phillpot, 2003) and has come to be recognized as a staple of the case study method (e.g., George & Bennett, 2005;Levy, 2002;Stinchcombe, 1968). For Eckstein's followers, the crucial case is the most methodologically defensible approach to single-case analysis.…”

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Is There a (Viable) Crucial-Case Method?

Gerring

2007

Comparative Political Studies

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Case study researchers use diverse methods to select their cases, a matter that has elicited considerable comment and no little consternation. Of all these methods, perhaps the most controversial is the crucial-case method, first proposed by Harry Eckstein several decades ago. Since Eckstein's influential essay, the crucial-case approach has been used in a multitude of studies across several social science disciplines and has come to be recognized as a staple of the case study method. Yet the idea of any single case playing a crucial (or critical) role is not widely accepted. In this article, the method of the crucial case is explored, and a limited defense (somewhat less expansive than that envisioned by Eckstein) of that method is undertaken. A second method of case-selection, closely associated with the logic of the crucial case, is introduced: the pathway case.

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Is There a (Viable) Crucial-Case Method?

Gerring

2007

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Il est donc difficile, selon lui, d'établir un lien systématique entre les caractéristiques des régimes politiques et la manière dont ils font la guerre. En revanche, même pour les plus farouches opposants à la thèse du triomphalisme démocratique, l'impossibilité de faire de ce lien une théorie générale ne signifie pas que la nature d'un régime -que celui-ci soit démocratique ou autoritaire -n'influe pas ponctuellement sur la conduite d'une guerre 46 .…”

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Faire la guerre : les politiques publiques, l’État et les conflits armés

Joana¹

2016

Critique Internationale

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Résumé L’étude de la guerre a largement échappé aux rapprochements initiés depuis quelques années entre analyse des politiques publiques et relations internationales. Il convient donc de s’interroger sur les conditions de possibilité d’une analyse de la guerre en termes de politiques publiques et sur ses éventuels apports. L’objectif est de dresser un bilan de la littérature en sciences sociales consacrée à l’action militaire en temps de guerre et de souligner le peu de cas qu’elle accorde à la distinction entre préparation et conduite de la guerre. Adopter une approche de politiques publiques pour rendre compte de la manière dont l’État fait la guerre permet de s’interroger sur les éventuelles spécificités des modes d’action publique que celui-ci met en œuvre pour intervenir militairement dans le cadre d’un conflit armé. Autrement dit, de comprendre la manière dont les politiques de défense sont adaptées à la guerre en cours.

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“…They provide some, if not strong, evidence about the positive relations between democracy and war victory (Reiter and Stam 2002), about democracy and alliance commitment (Choi 2004(Choi , 2012. Although some scholars dismiss the effects of democracy on alliance politics and war outcome (Desch 2002;Gartzke and Gleditsch 2004;Tago 2007), many people increasingly agree with the institutional approach that democracies not only do not fight each other but cooperate with each other well, often as reliable alliance partners.…”

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More Unstable Internally, More Reliable Externally: South Korea’s Participation in the Vietnam War

Jung¹

2016

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Democracy and Victory: Why Regime Type Hardly Matters

Cited by 111 publications

References 52 publications

Is There a (Viable) Crucial-Case Method?

Is There a (Viable) Crucial-Case Method?

Faire la guerre : les politiques publiques, l’État et les conflits armés

More Unstable Internally, More Reliable Externally: South Korea’s Participation in the Vietnam War

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