Battling Onward: The Debate Over Field Research in Developmental Economics and its Implications for Comparative
Politics
Edmund J. Malesky
Duke University, Political Science
September 1, 2008
Qualitative Methods, Fall 2008
Abstract:
Victory has finally been declared after a fierce internecine struggle, but the conflict will never be recorded in the Correlates of War dataset. In fact, except for a few notable exceptions, news of the battle has hardly seeped into political science journals at all; and its impact has certainly not been appreciated by the group best positioned to capitalize on the terms of victory – comparative scholars with deep country knowledge.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 18
Keywords: Development, Field Research
Accepted Paper Series
Suggested Citation
Malesky, Edmund J., Battling Onward: The Debate Over Field Research in Developmental Economics and its Implications for Comparative
Politics (September 1, 2008). Qualitative Methods, Fall 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1669745
