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| Bowman, et al. Reach across Regions to Improve Measures of Democracy | Kirk Bowman, Fabrice Lehoucq, James Mahoney | November 18, 2003 |
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A recent example of cross-regional collaboration in development research comes from the program of this year's meeting of the American Political Science Association, produced by researchers from Mexico and the US. In a paper on "Measuring Political Democracy," Georgia Tech's Kirk Bowman, Fabrice Lehoucq of Mexico's Center for Economic Research and Instruction (CIDE), and Brown University's James Mahoney work to refine measurements of regime/policy type, a key topic in current analyses of development. Studying the countries of Central America over the 20th Century, the authors observe that "[c]ountry and regional experts are often skeptical of the scores offered by large-N, over-time indices of democracy. They worry that these indices incorrectly score 'their' cases. This paper provides an empirical basis for believing this skepticism is well-founded." Download: /file/289_Bowman et al. Measuring Democracy.pdf [313 KB PDF]
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