Grammar of Time

Introduction: how to study a disorderly world in an orderly fashion; Section I. The Temporal foundations of comparative historical analysis; 1. Historical thinking: stop talking about testing for once!; 2. Varieties of historical time: history is not a dummy variable; 3. Physical time: capturing the rhythms of history; Section II. How to use history to describe patterns; 4. A primer on the origins of electoral systems; 5. Eventful analysis: using dates to explore patterns of (dis-) continuities; 6. Longue Duree analysis: looking for serial patterns; 7. Macro-causal analysis: physical time and the temporal construction of theories; Section III. What about causality?; 8. situating comparative historical analysis: heterodox yet still systematic; 9. Historical explanations: making sense of continuities and discontinuities; 10. Causal process tracing: making testing symmetric; Conclusion: different origins and shared complementarities.

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• Análise de dados : geral
• História: teoria e métodos
• Pesquisa e estatística social