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It's impossible to get reliable cross-national data, given how widely countries vary in their rules about government transparency and freedom of the press.
Using a cross-national data set, Allred, Hawkins, and Ruth find that on average, after two terms of populist rule, the quality of elections declines by 15percentt.
Throughout the book, they provide illustrations from history, ranging from ancient Sparta to Vichy France, and test the model against statistics gathered from cross-national data.
This multi-year project is in collaboration with Naazneen Barma (NPS) and Naomi Levy (Santa Clara University), and involves intensive field research and cross-national data gathering in Cambodia, Laos and Uganda.
Yet, very few studies have directly compared the extent to which social factors are associated with health in the two countries, in large part due to the historical lack of comparable cross-national data.
Put another way, the book may be published by an academic press and start off talking about theories and cross-national data analysis, but it's also a fun read for the non-specialist who might be interested in knowing more about coups and the conditions under which they are successful.
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Our more practical argument to focus only on differentiation, standardization, and resources is that the small number of destination countries (16) in the best available cross-national data-set (PISA data) makes it impossible to include all possible features of educational systems in the analysis.
Cross national data comparison shows that Spain and Ukraine stand out as an extreme case with its high positive FTI, which means that students in these countries a higher amount of time were spending in joint family activities than in other countries.
A persistent problem in the analysis of cross-national survey data relates to the method used to combine data collected from questionnaire items in order to generate composite measures for latent variables analyzed using parametric approaches (Keeves et al. [2006]).
"We need cross-national comparative data that is meaningful.
Cross-national time series data concerning trends in democracy are analyzed for all countries worldwide since the early 1970s.
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