Democratic consolidation in Central America: A qualitative comparative approach

Berntzen, Einar

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“…Only a relatively small number of applications appeared in the first 10 years in peer-reviewed journals (39 in total). However, many of these papers appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Journal of Sociology (Amenta et al ., 1992; Brown and Boswell, 1995), American Sociological Review (Hicks et al ., 1995; Cress and Snow, 1996) Sociological Methods and Research (Amenta and Poulsen, 1994; Coverdill et al ., 1994; Hicks, 1994), Social Forces (Amenta and Poulsen, 1996; Hollingsworth et al ., 1996), Economic and Industrial Democracy (Abell, 1990), International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Griffin, et al ., 1991; Wickham-Crowley, 1991), Third World Quarterly (Berntzen, 1993; Foran, 1997), Law and Policy (Weinberg and Gould, 1993; Gregware, 1994) Comparative Politics (Berg-Schlosser, 1994), International Studies Quarterly (Kiser et al ., 1995), Studies in Comparative International Development (Blake, 1996), Journal of European Social Policy (Peillon, 1996), Work and Occupations (Brueggemann and Boswell, 1998), Policy Studies Journal (Kiser and Baker, 1994), Sociological Quarterly (Biggert, 1997), and Historical Methods (Griffin et al ., 1997).…”

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The origins, development, and application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis: the first 25 years

Marx

Rihoux

Ragin

2013

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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A quarter century ago, in 1987, Charles C. Ragin published The Comparative Method, introducing a new method to the social sciences called Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is a comparative case-oriented research approach and collection of techniques based on set theory and Boolean algebra, which aims to combine some of the strengths of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Since its launch in 1987, QCA has been applied extensively in the social sciences. This review essay first sketches the origins of the ideas behind QCA. Next, the main features of the method, as presented in The Comparative Method, are introduced. A third part focuses on the early applications. A fourth part presents early criticisms and subsequent innovations. A fifth part then focuses on an era of further expansion in political science and presents some of the main applications in the discipline. In doing so, this paper seeks to provide insights and references into the origin and development of QCA, a non-technical introduction to its main features, the path travelled so far, and the diversification of applications.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The origins, development, and application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis: the first 25 years

Marx

Rihoux

Ragin

2013

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

174

122

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“…Democracy in the sense of "self-governance," rather than "state-governance," requires much more elaborate specification than is appropriate in the present article. Berntzen (1993); on the other hand, for efforts to operationalize these dimensions of democracy, see Vanhanen (1990); Bollen (1991); and Coppedge and Reinicke (1991). Thus, while the present study focuses on transition from military-dominated regimes to civilian regimes, the definition of democracy would also exclude authoritarian regimes such as the dominant, one-party system in Mexico.…”

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“Protected Democracies” and Military Guardianship: Political Transitions in Latin America, 1978-1993

Loveman

1994

J. inter-Am. stud. world aff.

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs. N 1979, over two-thirds of Latin America's people were living under military rule. By 1993, however, not a single military regime remained in Central or South America or the Spanishspeaking Caribbean. Elected presidents (even if former generals, as in the case of Paraguay's first post-Stroessner government) and legislatures replaced military dictators and juntas. Foreign observers certified the "fairness" of elections in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Paraguay -even when outgoing military regimes permitted elections only after certain parties or candidates had been excluded from participation. Political parties and opponents of incumbent governments operated openly. Media censorship declined, and fewer cases of politically-motivated abuses of human rights were reported.' "Democratization" seemed to be underway.

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“…Meanwhile, the changes in Central America during the same time period seemingly can be explained by the appearance of revolutionary groups in the late 1970s. The activities of these groups waned drastically as countries in the region democratised into the 1990s, a process often referred to in the Central American context as Democratic Consolidation; see, for example, Berntzen (1993).…”

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A Computationally Efficient, High-Dimensional Multiple Changepoint Procedure with Application to Global Terrorism Incidence

Tickle

Eckley

Fearnhead

2021

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Democratic consolidation in Central America: A qualitative comparative approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

The origins, development, and application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis: the first 25 years

The origins, development, and application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis: the first 25 years

“Protected Democracies” and Military Guardianship: Political Transitions in Latin America, 1978-1993

A Computationally Efficient, High-Dimensional Multiple Changepoint Procedure with Application to Global Terrorism Incidence

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