Concepts in comparative Latin American politics

This article aims four objectives about methodological aspects trough the main issues in Latin American Comparative Politics agenda: first, to rethink the usefulness that comparative method can acquire; second, to explain the main strategies for discover how to describe through concepts; third, to a...

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Autor: Lucca, Juan Bautista
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Repositorio:Espiral Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:espiral.cucsh.udg.mx:article/7055
Acceso en línea:http://espiral.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/EEES/article/view/7055
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Comparative methods
comparative politics
Latin American politics
concepts
typologies.
método comparativo
política comparada
política latinoamericana
conceptos
tipologías.
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Sumario:This article aims four objectives about methodological aspects trough the main issues in Latin American Comparative Politics agenda: first, to rethink the usefulness that comparative method can acquire; second, to explain the main strategies for discover how to describe through concepts; third, to analyze how to operationalize these concepts; an fourth, to analyze to what extent do the concepts serve to decode empirical situations, and vice versa. The article looks for contribute to the politic science epistemology at Latin America, specifically about methodologies construction.