Case Study - Who

Question 1

Ana Catalano Weeks

Answer 1

Investigating Gender Quota laws adopted by men
- These data show that there was no change in the strength or autonomy of
women’s movements in Belgium or Portugal before a quota law was passed. In other words,
a trend towards strong, autonomous women’s movements is not present before quota laws
were passed in these cases. My interview data further confirmed that women’s movements
were not crucial players in these cases.
- countries chosen that are similar in al factors except the factor of interest

Question 2

Rooduijn

Answer 2

They are different on all variables (time, space, orientation) except for the fact that they are perceived to be populist actors

Question 3

Zuber

Answer 3

The author “seeks to modify the dominant
existing theoretical explanation of ethnic
parties’ choice of strategy by comparing
failed most likely cases of outbidding
classified with the help of a new typology
of ethnic party strategies. … Empirically, I
choose most likely cases for strategic
choice in line with the outbidding model to
ensure that findings can be generalized
to all cases where outbidding is equally
or less likely.

Question 4

Cyr

Answer 4

Party-system collapse as context condition
“the post-collapse political landscape [is]
particularly hostile for formerly
predominant parties. … If parties survive
here, then we may expect they will
survive less hostile instances of crisis

Question 5

Turnbull

Answer 5

Nigeria; representativeness within the African region and with respect to developing
democracies (typical case selection strategy), and second, because of the number
of armed croups and the frequency of electoral violence in the country (sufficient
variation to study the phenomenon)

Question 6

Lupien

Answer 6

“This method seeks to achieve a certain level of
variation on a number of important dimension in order to ensure that selected cases
represent a broader population of cases and is a useful approach for ensuring
representation in small-N studies – are selected based on variation on
regional/cultural differences, ethnic representation, socioeconomic factors, urban/rural divide

Question 7

Falleti

Answer 7

Faletti further investigates the two countries that are most different on decentralisation

Question 8

Lisi et al.

Answer 8

because it “goes against
theoretical expectations of party system change

Question 9

Professor

Answer 9

y = amount of populism
x = change in direct democracy
if chavez = included, positive relation, if not, a negative one