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A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
AvSebastián L. Mazzuca,Gerardo L. Munck
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
238 kr
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Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics
AvGerardo L. Munck,Richard Snyder
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
526 kr
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In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the twentieth century. Organized around a broad set of themes-intellectual formation and training; major works and ideas; the craft and tools of research; colleagues, collaborators, and students; and the past and future of comparative politics-these in-depth interviews offer unique and candid reflections that bring the research process to life and shed light on the human dimension of scholarship. Giving voice to scholars who practice their craft in different ways yet share a passion for knowledge about global politics, Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics offers a wealth of insights into contemporary debates about the state of knowledge in comparative politics and the future of the field.
Progress in the Social Sciences
Scientific Research and the Quest for Knowledge about Democracy
AvGerardo L. Munck
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 595 kr
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Progress in the Social Sciences examines the degree to which social scientists have made progress in their understanding of democracy and democratic transitions. It provides a framework to assess social science research and a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the field of democracy studies from the late eighteenth century to the present. The book finds that sustained progress has been made by the social sciences and that progress has come through the development of concepts, theories, data, and empirical tests. Moreover, the book argues that advances in knowledge have been made via bold innovations rather than through many small incremental steps. Driven by a desire to better understand whether the social sciences contribute to knowledge about societies and their problems, Progress in the Social Sciences is an ambitious and innovative work that counters the pessimistic views about accomplishments in the social sciences. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Progress in the Social Sciences
Scientific Research and the Quest for Knowledge about Democracy
AvGerardo L. Munck
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
494 kr
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Progress in the Social Sciences examines the degree to which social scientists have made progress in their understanding of democracy and democratic transitions. It provides a framework to assess social science research and a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the field of democracy studies from the late eighteenth century to the present. The book finds that sustained progress has been made by the social sciences and that progress has come through the development of concepts, theories, data, and empirical tests. Moreover, the book argues that advances in knowledge have been made via bold innovations rather than through many small incremental steps. Driven by a desire to better understand whether the social sciences contribute to knowledge about societies and their problems, Progress in the Social Sciences is an ambitious and innovative work that counters the pessimistic views about accomplishments in the social sciences. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
The Theoretical Foundations of Democracy Studies
Concepts, Causes, and Outcomes
AvGerardo L. Munck
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
766 kr
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Focusing on democracy studies, this Element considers the different ways in which scholars have responded to fundamental conceptual and theoretical choices in the field and, drawing mainly on various metatheoretical ideas, suggests that some positions are better justified than others. It emphasizes the perils of maximalist definitions of democracy and argues against an aggregative, additive conception of democracy that does not recognize qualitative distinctions. It questions the assignment of causal primacy to economic, cultural, or political factors in explanations of democracy, and stresses the importance of causal interactions and reciprocal causation. It makes a case for modeling the temporal heterogeneity of causal relations. It favors explanations that incorporate causal mechanisms through multi-level models. It also sees the integration of specific models of democracy as a promising path to theoretical unification. In short, it scrutinizes several foundational ideas in democracy studies and proposes a reconstruction of the field's theoretical foundations.
The Theoretical Foundations of Democracy Studies
Concepts, Causes, and Outcomes
AvGerardo L. Munck
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
239 kr
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Focusing on democracy studies, this Element considers the different ways in which scholars have responded to fundamental conceptual and theoretical choices in the field and, drawing mainly on various metatheoretical ideas, suggests that some positions are better justified than others. It emphasizes the perils of maximalist definitions of democracy and argues against an aggregative, additive conception of democracy that does not recognize qualitative distinctions. It questions the assignment of causal primacy to economic, cultural, or political factors in explanations of democracy, and stresses the importance of causal interactions and reciprocal causation. It makes a case for modeling the temporal heterogeneity of causal relations. It favors explanations that incorporate causal mechanisms through multi-level models. It also sees the integration of specific models of democracy as a promising path to theoretical unification. In short, it scrutinizes several foundational ideas in democracy studies and proposes a reconstruction of the field's theoretical foundations.
Latin American Politics and Society
AvGerardo L. Munck,Juan Pablo Luna
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 447 kr
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Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the text considers critical topics relevant to all countries within the region such as the expansion of democracy and citizenship rights and responses to human rights abuses, corruption, and violence. Each richly illustrated chapter contains a compelling and cohesive narrative, followed by thought-provoking questions and further reading suggestions, making this text a vital resource for anyone encountering the complexities of Latin American politics for the first time in their studies.
Latin American Politics and Society
AvGerardo L. Munck,Juan Pablo Luna
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
509 kr
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Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the text considers critical topics relevant to all countries within the region such as the expansion of democracy and citizenship rights and responses to human rights abuses, corruption, and violence. Each richly illustrated chapter contains a compelling and cohesive narrative, followed by thought-provoking questions and further reading suggestions, making this text a vital resource for anyone encountering the complexities of Latin American politics for the first time in their studies.
Latin American Politics and Society
A Comparative and Historical Analysis
AvJuan Pablo Luna,Gerardo L. Munck
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2022
620 kr
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Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region''s past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the text considers critical topics relevant to all countries within the region such as the expansion of democracy and citizenship rights and responses to human rights abuses, corruption, and violence. Each richly illustrated chapter contains a compelling and cohesive narrative, followed by thought-provoking questions and further reading suggestions, making this text a vital resource for anyone encountering the complexities of Latin American politics for the first time in their studies.
Latin American Politics and Society
A Comparative and Historical Analysis
AvJuan Pablo Luna,Gerardo L. Munck
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
618 kr
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Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region''s past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the text considers critical topics relevant to all countries within the region such as the expansion of democracy and citizenship rights and responses to human rights abuses, corruption, and violence. Each richly illustrated chapter contains a compelling and cohesive narrative, followed by thought-provoking questions and further reading suggestions, making this text a vital resource for anyone encountering the complexities of Latin American politics for the first time in their studies.
Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
AvGerardo L. Munck,Sebastian L. Mazzuca
E-bok
Engelska, 2021
284 kr
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Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region''s quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.
Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
AvGerardo L. Munck,Sebastian L. Mazzuca
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2021
284 kr
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Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region''s quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.
Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies
Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science
AvDavid Collier,Gerardo L. Munck
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 393 kr
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Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first coordinated effort to define this field of research, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current practices as a basis for guiding its future. Contributors include stars in this field who have written some of the classic works on critical junctures, as well as the rising stars of the next generation who will continue to shape historical comparative analysis for years to come. Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies will be an indispensable resource for social science research methods scholars and students.
Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies
Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science
AvDavid Collier,Gerardo L. Munck
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
506 kr
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Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first coordinated effort to define this field of research, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current practices as a basis for guiding its future. Contributors include stars in this field who have written some of the classic works on critical junctures, as well as the rising stars of the next generation who will continue to shape historical comparative analysis for years to come. Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies will be an indispensable resource for social science research methods scholars and students.
El pensamiento sociopolítico latinoamericano
Ciencias sociales e intelectuales en tiempos cambiantes
AvMartin Tanaka,Gerardo L. Munck
E-bok
PDF, Spanska, 2026
173 kr
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Este libro ofrece un recuento de una etapa clave en la historia del pensamiento sociopolítico latinoamericano y de las Ciencias Sociales en América Latina por medio de entrevistas extensas y detalladas con un grupo diverso de intelectuales. Nos cuentan sobre su formación, las instituciones académicas que crearon o lideraron, su involucramiento en la política, su posición con respecto a temas como la revolución y la democracia, y sus publicaciones y formas de trabajar. Las experiencias de estos intelectuales nos dejan varias lecciones sobre la importancia de una revitalización de un pensamiento sociopolítico enfocado en los problemas de la región y el futuro de las Ciencias Sociales en América Latina. Gerardo L. Munck es politólogo y profesor del Departamento de Ciencia Pol í t i ca y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Sur de Cal i f ornia (USC). Martín Tanaka es politólogo y profesor principal del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) e investigador principal del Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP).
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics
AvGerardo L. Munck,Richard Snyder
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
770 kr
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In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the twentieth century. Organized around a broad set of themes-intellectual formation and training; major works and ideas; the craft and tools of research; colleagues, collaborators, and students; and the past and future of comparative politics-these in-depth interviews offer unique and candid reflections that bring the research process to life and shed light on the human dimension of scholarship. Giving voice to scholars who practice their craft in different ways yet share a passion for knowledge about global politics, Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics offers a wealth of insights into contemporary debates about the state of knowledge in comparative politics and the future of the field.
Measuring Democracy
A Bridge between Scholarship and Politics
AvGerardo L. Munck
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
574 kr
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Although democracy is a widely held value, concrete measurement of it is elusive. Gerardo L. Munck's constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice. Drawing on his years of academic research on democracy and measurement and his practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the Organization of American States, Munck's discussion bridges the theories of academia with practical applications. In proposing a more open and collaborative relationship between theory and action, he makes the case for reassessing how democracy is measured and encourages fundamental changes in methodology. Munck's field-tested framework for quantifying and qualifying democracy is built around two instruments he developed: the UN Development Programme's Electoral Democracy Index and a case-by-case election monitoring tool used by the OAS. Measuring Democracy offers specific, real-world lessons that scholars and practitioners can use to improve the quality and utility of data about democracy.
Measuring Democracy
A Bridge between Scholarship and Politics
AvGerardo L. Munck
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
326 kr
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Although democracy is a widely held value, concrete measurement of it is elusive. Gerardo L. Munck's constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice. Drawing on his years of academic research on democracy and measurement and his practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the Organization of American States, Munck's discussion bridges the theories of academia with practical applications. In proposing a more open and collaborative relationship between theory and action, he makes the case for reassessing how democracy is measured and encourages fundamental changes in methodology. Munck's field-tested framework for quantifying and qualifying democracy is built around two instruments he developed: the UN Development Programme's Electoral Democracy Index and a case-by-case election monitoring tool used by the OAS. Measuring Democracy offers specific, real-world lessons that scholars and practitioners can use to improve the quality and utility of data about democracy.

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Gerardo L. Munck – författare

A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics

Progress in the Social Sciences

Progress in the Social Sciences

The Theoretical Foundations of Democracy Studies

The Theoretical Foundations of Democracy Studies

Latin American Politics and Society

Latin American Politics and Society

Latin American Politics and Society

Latin American Politics and Society

Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies

Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies

El pensamiento sociopolítico latinoamericano

Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics

Measuring Democracy

Measuring Democracy

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