Research & Publications

Methods & Measurements

"Systematizing Practices: Criteria and Methods for Electoral Observation," pp. 34-45, in Elizabeth Spehar and Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian with Raúl Alconada Sempé (eds.), The 2005-2006 Electoral Cycle in the Americas: A Review of the OAS General Secretariat (Washington, DC: General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, 2007).

“Monitoring Democracy: Deepening an Emerging Consensus.” [View paper in English in PDF], [View article in Spanish in PDF]

“Drawing Boundaries: How to Craft Intermediate Regime Categories,” pp. 27-40 in Andreas Schedler (ed.), Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition (Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006). [Published also as “How to Craft Intermediate Regime Categories,” Committee on Concepts and Methods Working Paper Series # 4 (International Political Science Association [IPSA], Committee on Concepts and Methods, May 2005).] [View article in PDF]

“Measuring Democratic Governance: Central Tasks and Basic Problems,” pp. 427-59, in Deepa Narayan (ed.), Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2005).

(Munck and Jay Verkuilen) “Research Designs,” pp. 385-95, in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement Vol. 3 (San Diego, Cal.: Academic Press, 2005). [View article in PDF]

“Ten Fallacies About Qualitative Research,” Qualitative Methods—Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section on Qualitative Methods Vol. 3, Nº 1 (Spring 2005): 2-5. [View article in PDF]

(David Collier, Jason Seawright and Munck) “The Quest for Standards: King, Keohane, and Verba’s Designing Social Inquiry,” pp. 21-50, in Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Boulder, Col. and Berkeley, Cal.: Rowman & Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2004).

“Tools for Qualitative Research,” pp. 105-21, in Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Boulder, Col. and Berkeley, Cal.: Rowman & Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2004).

“Teaching Qualitative Methodology: Rationale, State of the Art, and an Agenda,” Qualitative Methods—Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section on Qualitative Methods Vol. 1, Nº 1 (Spring 2003): 12-15. [View article in PDF]

(Munck and Jay Verkuilen) “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices,” Comparative Political Studies Vol. 35, Nº 1 (February 2002): 5-34. [View article in PDF]

“Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis,” Studies in Comparative International Development Vol. 33, Nº 3 (1998): 18-45. [View article in PDF]