Working with Concepts: Foundational Essays by David Collier, with Research Notes on Innovation in the Field

David Collier

doi:10.1017/9781009551250

David Collier is among the most influential thinkers on conceptualization, foundational to social science inquiry. An eminent political scientist, he specializes in mixed methods and comparative politics. Working with Concepts brings together David Collier's most influential research on concepts and measurement, refined and reframed, to offer a systematic approach to concept analysis. It serves as a reference book for both students and seasoned scholars grappling with concepts. Collier's essays are accompanied by commentaries by twelve scholars who connect his contributions to ongoing debates in the field. The commentaries open up new lines of research and provoke ongoing scholarly reaction and innovation. Tightly organized with the aim of moving the field forward, this collection of essays explores some of the contours of the field and its milestones to show how careful work with concepts is a foundation of good methodology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Working with Concepts
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Additional material
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Working with Concepts - Title page
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Foundational Essays by David Collier, with Research Notes on Innovation in the Field
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Figures
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Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Preface
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Introduction
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Learning about Concepts
- By David Collier
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Part I - Traveling, Stretching, and Conceptual Hierarchies
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1 - Conceptual Stretching Revisited
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Adapting Concepts in Comparative Analysis
- By David Collier, James E. Mahon
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2 - Democracy with Adjectives
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Conceptual Hierarchies in Comparative Research
- By David Collier, Steven Levitsky
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3 - Trajectory of a Concept
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Corporatism in the Study of Latin American Politics
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Research Notes 1
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Research Notes on Traveling, Stretching, and Conceptual Hierarchies
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4 - A Warning
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Maintaining Conceptual Boundaries in the Era of Democratic Anxiety
- By Kurt Weyland
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5 - The V-Dem Project
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A Multidimensional Perspective on “Democracy with Adjectives”
- By Michael Coppedge
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6 - Successful Conceptual Traveling
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Corporatism in Latin America, 1995–2023
- By Sarah Chartock
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Part II - Typologies and Concept Formation
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7 - Putting Typologies to Work
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Concept Formation, Measurement, and Analytic Rigor
- By David Collier, Jody LaPorte, Jason Seawright
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Research Notes 2
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Research Notes on Typologies
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8 - Typologies and Concept Formation
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Untangling Clientelism
- By Simeon Nichter
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9 - Working with Typologies
pp 166-178
Analytic Leverage in Post-Communist Studies
- By Danielle N. Lussier
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Part III - Untangling Concepts
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Contestation, Pragmatism, and Disaggregation
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10 - Essentially Contested Concepts
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Debates and Applications
- By David Collier, Fernando Daniel Hidalgo, Andra Olivia Miljanic
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11 - Democracy and Dichotomies
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A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts
- By David Collier, Robert Adcock
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12 - Inducements versus Constraints
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Disaggregating “Corporatism”
- By Ruth Berins Collier, David Collier
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Appendix 12.1: Overview of Legal Provisions for Inducements and Constraints
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Appendix 12.2: Coding and Scaling of Labor Law
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