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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

David Collier
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Zachary Elkins
David Collier
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Zachary Elkins
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin

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Working with Concepts
Foundational Essays by David Collier, with Research Notes on Innovation in the Field
 , pp. xi - xii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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  1. 1.1Analyzing a family resemblance as a kind hierarchy

  2. 1.2Avoiding conceptual stretching: kind hierarchies versus part–whole hierarchies

  3. 2.1Part–whole hierarchy: examples of diminished subtypes

  4. 2.2Was it a democratic regime? Lowering and raising the standard for Brazil in 1987/88 versus 1993

  5. 3.1Differentiating at the level of the root concept: institutional site of exchange and accommodation

  6. 3.2Differentiating at the level of the root concept: degree of competition and locus of power

  7. 3.3Subtypes and dimensions: further differentiating the locus of power

  8. 5.1Aggregation and variance explained

  9. 6.1Cases, contexts, and concepts

  10. 7.1Kinds of typologies

  11. 7.2Targeting rewards and electoral mobilization

  12. 9.1Kitschelt, Mansfeldova, Markowski, and Toka’s conceptual typology of modes of communist rule with cases

  13. 9.2Kitschelt, Mansfeldova, Markowski, and Toka’s explanatory typology of antecedents of communist rule

  14. 9.3Breslauer’s conceptual typology of durable modes of communist rule with cases

  15. 9.4Levitsky and Way’s argument with accurately predicted cases

  16. 10.1Essentially contested concepts: summary, assessments, and refinements

  17. 12.1Outline of categories used in scoring labor law

  18. 14.1Validity test of conceptual contestation

  19. 14.2Causes of contestation

  20. 17.1Four traditions of measurement validation

  21. 19.1Alternative conceptual choices: dueling dualisms and a trichotomy

  22. 19.2Three interpretivist dualisms

  23. 22.1Examples of formal conceptual work discussed in this chapter

  24. 23.1Specifying underlying dimensions of concepts to enable specific research agendas

  25. 23.2Distinguishing types of corruption by combining typologies

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