Data usage in quantitative comparative politics

Andreas Schedler*, Cas Mudde

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

The quantitative study of comparative politics is often described as a data-driven enterprise. Employing an original dataset of comparative politics articles published in leading academic journals between 1989 and 2007, this article offers the first empirical analysis of data usage in comparative research. Tracing potential biases induced by data dependence, it assesses the structure of quantitative comparative research (by year, research design, geographic focus, and subject area), the use of country-specific and region-specific datasets, the introduction of original data, and the degree of concentration in data usage. Its empirical findings question cherished assumptions about the structure of the discipline.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)417-433
Number of pages17
JournalPolitical Research Quarterly
Volume63
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Comparative politics
  • Cross-national datasets
  • Quantitative methods

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