Ceilings and Floors: Where Are There No Observations?

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-40

  Goertz, Gary ^a   Hak, Tony ^b   Dul, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

democracy; GDP capita; necessary conditions; QCA; quantile regression; veto player

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875500652     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124112460375     Document Type: Article

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