Explanatory typologies in qualitative studies of international politics

被引:189
作者
Elman, C [1 ]
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[1] Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ USA
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10.1017/S0020818305050101
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D81 [国际关系];
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030207 ;
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Explanatory typologies are powerful tools in the qualitative study of international politics. They are likely to be most valuable when scholars systematically apply shared techniques. This article provides an account of analytic steps used in working with typologies, and an accessible vocabulary to describe them. These analytic steps are illustrated with concrete examples drawn from prominent versions of offensive structural, defensive structural, and neoclassical realism. Five forms of cell compression-rescaling and indexing, as well as logical, empirical, and pragmatic compression-are considered, along with the drawbacks associated with each. The expansion of a partial typology and the rediscovery of deleted cells are also discussed. Finally, the article considers the potential drawbacks of a typological approach, and argues that scholars must be mindful of the risks of reification and of relabeling anomalies.
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