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The Comparative Method

POLITICAL SCIENCE: THE STATE OF DISCIPLINE II, Ada W. Finifter, ed., American Political Science Association, 1993

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Jun 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America

Collier, Ruth Berins, and David Collier. 2002. Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Number of pages: 122 Posted: 08 Mar 2017

Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier

University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies

SHAPING THE POLITICAL ARENA: CRITICAL JUNCTURES, THE LABOR MOVEMENT, AND REGIME DYNAMICS IN LATIN AMERICA, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Mar 2011

Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier

University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Teaching Process Tracing: Exercises and Examples

PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 823-830, October 2011

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2016

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Understanding Process Tracing

PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 823-830, October 2011

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2019

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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The Comparative Method: Two Decades of Change

Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Mar 2017

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Typologies: Forming Concepts and Creating Categorical Variables

Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Jul 2016

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Concepts and Method in Social Science: The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori (Introduction)

Concepts & Method in Social Science: The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori, 1st Edition, (Eds.) David Collier,‎ John Gerring, London: Routledge, 2009, pp. i-ix and 1-10; ISBN: 978-0415775786

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 28 Dec 2017

David Collier and John Gerring

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of Texas at Austin

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Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research

World Politics, Vol. 49, No. 1, October 1996

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

David Collier and James Mahoney

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University

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Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: Organizations, Publication, and Reflections on Integration

Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, pp. 780-795, 2008

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2016

David Collier and Colin Elman

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Syracuse University - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

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Conceptual 'Stretching' Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis

American Political Science Review, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 845-855, December 1993

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Jan 2011

David Collier and James E. Mahon

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Williams College

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Putting Typologies to Work: Concept Formation, Measurement, and Analytic Rigor

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 2, June 2012

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2016

David Collier, Jody LaPorte and Jason Seawright

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, University of Oxford - Department of Politics and International Relations and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research

American Political Science Review, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 529-546, September 2001

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

Robert Adcock and David Collier

American University - School of International Service and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Bureaucratic Authoritarianism

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO POLITICS OF THE WORLD, 2nd Edition, Joel Krieger, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 21 Feb 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research

World Politics, Vol. 49, pp. 430-451, April 1997

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

David Collier and Steven Levitsky

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Harvard University

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Conceptual Hierarchies in Comparative Research: The Case of Democracy

CONCEPTS AND METHOD IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCE: THE TRADITION OF GIOVANNI SARTORI, David Collier, John Gerring, eds., Routledge, 2009

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Jun 2011

David Collier and Steven Levitsky

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Harvard University

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Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices About Concepts

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 2, pp. 537-565, 1999

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

David Collier and Robert Adcock

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and American University - School of International Service

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Building Blocks and Methodological Challenges: A Framework for Studying Critical Junctures

Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 15, No. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 2-9

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 15 Sep 2017

David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of Southern California

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Qualitative versus Quantitative: What Might This Distinction Mean?

Newsletter of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2003

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 24 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

David Collier, Jason Seawright and Henry E. Brady

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, Northwestern University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Symposium on Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies

Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 15, No. 1, pp. 1-47, 2017

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021

David Collier, Gerardo L. Munck, Sidney Tarrow, Kenneth M. Roberts, Robert Kaufman, Taylor Boas, Timothy Scully, Jorge Dominguez, Sebastián Mazzuca, Andrew C Gould and Thad Dunning

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, University of Southern California, Cornell University - Law School, Cornell University - Department of Government, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Department of Political Science, Boston University - Department of Political Science, Notre Dame University, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government, Students, Johns Hopkins University, University of Notre Dame and University of California, Berkeley - Center on the Politics of Development

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Trajectory of a Concept: ‘Corporatism’ in the Study of Latin American Politics

LATIN AMERICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Peter H. Smith, ed., Westview, 1995

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Feb 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Case Selection, Case Studies, and Causal Inference: A Symposium

Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 2-16, 2008

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Aug 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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A Sea Change in Political Methodology

Newsletter of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2011

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Mar 2011

David Collier, Henry E. Brady and Jason Seawright

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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Who Does What, to Whom, and How: Toward a Comparative Analysis of Latin American Corporatism

AUTHORITARIANISM AND CORPORATISM IN LATIN AMERICA, James Malloy, ed., University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Aug 2011

David Collier and Ruth Berins Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley

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Data, Field Work, and Extracting New Ideas at Close Range

Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1999

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Feb 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Outdated Views of Qualitative Methods: Time to Move On

Political Analysis, Vol. 18, pp. 506-512, September 2010

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2016

David Collier, Henry E. Brady and Jason Seawright

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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Comparative Method in the 1990s

American Political Science Association – Comparative, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-2, 4-5, Winter 1998

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 21 Jun 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Critical Juncture Research

Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science (2022)

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Jan 2023

David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of Southern California

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Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Front Matter)

Rethinking Social Inquiry, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010; ISBN: 978-1-4422-0344-0)

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Oct 2017

Henry E. Brady and David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Rival Strategies of Validation: Tools for Evaluating Measures of Democracy

Comparative Political Studies 47 No. 2, January 2014, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2016

Jason Seawright and David Collier

Northwestern University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Statistical Models and Causal Inference

"Statistical Models and Causal Inference", New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018

David A. Freedman, David Collier, Jasjeet S. Sekhon and Philip B. Stark

University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley

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Prerequisites Versus Diffusion: Testing Alternative Explanations of Social Security Adoption

American Political Science Review, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 1299-1315, December 1975

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Mar 2011

David Collier and Richard E. Messick

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Essentially Contested Concepts: Debates and Applications

Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 11, Vol. 3, pp. 211-246, October 2006

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

David Collier, Fernando D. Hidalgo and A. Olivia Miljanic

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley and University of Houston

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Comparative-Historical Analysis: Where Do We Stand?

Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section in Comparative Politics. Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 1998

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 27 Mar 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Symposium: The Set-Theoretic Comparative Method — Critical Assessment and the Search for Alternatives

Symposium on "The Set-Theoretic Comparative Method (STCM): Critical Assessment and the Search for Alternatives." 2014. David Collier, Ed. Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 12(1): 1-51.

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Jul 2014

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Toward a Pluralistic Vision of Methodology

Political Analysis, Vol. 14, pp. 353-368, 2006

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 31 May 2012

David Collier, Jason Seawright and Henry E. Brady

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, Northwestern University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Problematic Tools: Introduction to Symposium on Set Theory in Social Science

Collier, David. 2014. “Problematic Tools: Introduction to Symposium on Set Theory in Social Science.” Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 12(1).

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Jul 2014

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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El Nuevo Autoritarismo en America Latina (The New Authoritarianism in Latin America)

El Nuevo Autoritarismo en America Latina, 1985

Number of pages: 227 Posted: 19 Mar 2017

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Inducements Versus Constraints: Disaggregating Corporatism

American Political Science Review, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 967-986, December 1979

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier

University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Building a Disciplined, Rigorous Center in Comparative Politics

Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1999

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 21 Feb 2011

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Industrial Modernization and Political Change: A Latin American Perspective

World Politics, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 593-614, July 1978

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Strategic Choice Models of Political Change in Latin America

Comparative Politics, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 229-243, January 1992

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

David Collier and Deborah L. Norden

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Whittier College

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Squatter Settlements and Policy Innovation in Peru

In Abraham F. Lowenthal, ed., The Peruvian Experiment: Continuity and Change under Military Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Mar 2017

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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O Novo Autoritarismo Na America Latina (The New Authoritarianism in Latin America)

O Novo Autoritarismo Na America Latina, 1982

Number of pages: 204 Posted: 19 Mar 2017

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Regimes and Democracy in Latin America

Studies in Comparative International Development, Spring 2001, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 3–6.

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Mar 2017

David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of Southern California

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QCA Should Set Aside the Algorithms

Sociological Methodology, Vol. 44 (August 2014): 122-26

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Jul 2016

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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A New Qualitative Methods Section

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 20 Mar 2017

Colin Elman, David Collier and Henry E. Brady

Syracuse University - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards

Henry E. Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking Social Inquiry. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010

Posted: 07 Dec 2017

Henry E. Brady and David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods: Raising Some Question - and Asking Where We Go from Here

Posted: 06 Mar 2017

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science

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