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3 - Mixed Methods and Multilevel Research Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2018

Sara Niedzwiecki
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Chapter 3 describes the level of implementation of social policies across provinces and time in Argentina and Brazil. Then it discusses why a mixed-methods research design is an apt choice for unraveling the factors that shape social policy implementation. Case studies are nested within statistical analysis. This strategy aims at achieving detailed causal mechanisms and generalizability at the same time. The case study includes three levels: country, provincial, and municipal. At the national level, the book includes the two most decentralized countries in the region according to the Regional Authority Index, which share similar historical patterns of welfare state development, but differences in the types of political alignments, policy legacies, and territorial infrastructure. At the subnational level, the book includes provinces and municipalities with similar levels of GDP per capita – to rule out explanations based on wealth – but with different political alignments to the central government and different strategies for developing territorial infrastructure.
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Uneven Social Policies
The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America
, pp. 51 - 81
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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