Consensus and dissensus in comparative politics : Do comparativists agree on the goals, methods, and results of the field?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192512119858370" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192512119858370</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192512119858370" target="_blank" >10.1177/0192512119858370</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Consensus and dissensus in comparative politics : Do comparativists agree on the goals, methods, and results of the field?

Original language description

Are comparative political scientists divided over the goals, methods, and results of their field? This article attempts to answer this question, drawing on an original survey of US-based political scientists. The main conclusion is that there is relative consensus on the goals of research—comparativists favor broad generalizations and causal inference—but there is also acceptance of a variety of methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, in pursuing this goal. Comparativists, however, show less agreement on substantive findings in the areas of democracy and democratic politics, economy and society, and political institutions. Interestingly, generational differences are relatively infrequent, but gender differences on issues such as rational choice and causal inference are more prominent, possibly contributing to gendered citation bias. The findings suggest that comparative politics may not have accumulated a large amount of agreed-upon knowledge, but that there is substantial agreement on the path forward.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Political Science Review

ISSN

0192-5121

e-ISSN

1460-373X

Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

490-506

UT code for WoS article

000483172500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071442406