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SUMMARY:Subnational peripheries and the comparative method - Thomas B Pepi
 nsky\, Associate Professor of Government\, Cornell University
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CONTACT:Helen Williams
DESCRIPTION:This paper identifies subnational peripheries as regions with 
 historical trajectories and social formations that differ from those the m
 ajority of state’s territory\, and that present distinct inferential cha
 llenges to within-country comparative designs using the subnational compar
 ative method (Snyder 2001). These challenges are directly interpretable us
 ing standard concepts in quantitative and qualitative political methodolog
 y: unit heterogeneity\, unobserved heterogeneity\, complex interactive cau
 ses\, small-n problems\, and nonignorable missing data. I illustrate the s
 takes of the argument for current practice using three questions for which
  the subnational comparative method is ideally suited—local public goods
  and economic development\, identity and insurgency\, and ethnic voting—
 in the context of six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia\, Malaysia\, My
 anmar\, the Philippines\, Thailand\, and Vietnam. My discussion clarifies 
 exactly how subnational peripheries complicate causal inference through wi
 thin-country comparisons\, and shows how many of the solutions to the prob
 lems raised by subnational peripheries frequently change the causal parame
 ter of interest\, or alternatively\, the population being studied. These f
 indings have important implications for current practice.\n\nThe paper can
  be read in advance and is available here: https://tompepinsky.files.wordp
 ress.com/2014/01/peripheries1.pdf\n
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building (ARB)\, 7 West Road\, 2nd floor\, Room S2
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