The Enduring Indispensability of the Controlled Comparison

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1301-1327

  Slater, Dan ^a   Ziblatt, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

authoritarianism; comparative methods; controlled comparisons; fascism; mixed methods; qualitative methods; Southeast A

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884573977     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414012472469     Document Type: Article

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