Battling Onward: The Debate Over Field Research in Developmental Economics and its Implications for Comparative
Politics

Malesky, Edmund J.

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Battling Onward: The Debate Over Field Research in Developmental Economics and its Implications for Comparative Politics

Qualitative Methods, Fall 2008

18 Pages Posted: 2 Sep 2010

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Edmund J. Malesky

Duke University, Political Science

Date Written: September 1, 2008

Abstract

Victory has finally been declared after a fierce internecine struggle, but the conflict will never be recorded in the Correlates of War dataset. In fact, except for a few notable exceptions, news of the battle has hardly seeped into political science journals at all; and its impact has certainly not been appreciated by the group best positioned to capitalize on the terms of victory – comparative scholars with deep country knowledge.

Keywords: Development, Field Research

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Malesky, Edmund J., Battling Onward: The Debate Over Field Research in Developmental Economics and its Implications for Comparative Politics (September 1, 2008). Qualitative Methods, Fall 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1669745