Democracy and dichotomies: A pragmatic approach to choices about concepts

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 537-565

  Collier, David ^a   Adcock, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept formation; Levels of measurement; Methodology; Regimes; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474870     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.537     Document Type: Article

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