Putting typologies to work: Concept formation, measurement, and analytic rigor

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 217-232

  Collier, David ^a   LaPorte, Jody ^a   Seawright, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

concept formation; levels of measurement; measurement; multimethod research; qualitative methods; scale types; typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858245285     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912912437162     Document Type: Article

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