Putting Typologies to Work
- 13 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Political Research Quarterly
- Vol. 65 (1), 217-232
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912912437162
Abstract
Typologies are well-established analytic tools in the social sciences. They can be “put to work” in forming concepts, refining measurement, exploring dimensionality, and organizing explanatory claims. Yet some critics, basing their arguments on what they believe are relevant norms of quantitative measurement, consider typologies old-fashioned and unsophisticated. This critique is methodologically unsound, and research based on typologies can and should proceed according to high standards of rigor and careful measurement. These standards are summarized in guidelines for careful work with typologies, and an illustrative inventory of typologies, as well as a brief glossary, are included online.Keywords
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