When Right Makes Might

Goddard, Stacie E.

doi:10.1515/9781501730313

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“…More typically, this work combines hegemonic or major-power decline with other X variables to determine why states respond to it as they do. Other LNQA work in this vein has addressed not only the question of war but retrenchment (MacDonald and Parent 2018), accommodation on the part of great powers (Goddard 2018), and on the strategies of rising powers (Shifrinson 2018). Each of these studies looks at a limited number of hegemonic declines-albeit coded somewhat differently-and casts findings in terms of regularities.…”

Section: Generalizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): Causal Generalization in Case Study and Multimethod Research

Goertz,

Haggard

2023

Perspect. polit.

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We describe an emerging research practice that we call Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA), outline its core components and codify best practice. LNQA starts with hypothesized regularities and causal mechanisms. Regularities take two basic forms: $ \mathrm{Y} $ generalizations (if $ \mathrm{Y} $ then $ \mathrm{X} $ ) or $ \mathrm{X} $ generalizations (if $ \mathrm{X} $ then $ \mathrm{Y} $ ), albeit with more complex variants. To establish a causal generalization requires defining its scope. The strength of the regularity is simply the percentage of cases conforming with the causal claim. The causal force of LNQA, however, comes from within-case causal inference, which demonstrates the presence and operation of the postulated mechanisms in all cases in the scope. The method thus partly obviates problems arising from case selection in qualitative and multimethod work. We also identify a multimethod variant (M-LNQA), which combines LNQA with experimental, quasi-experimental, or observational statistical analysis. An appendix introduces over fifty examples of the method.

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Section: Generalizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): Causal Generalization in Case Study and Multimethod Research

Goertz,

Haggard

2023

Perspect. polit.

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“…Expanding influence to other states means intervening in their political or economic activities (Feste, 2003). In many cases, expansionists introduce or impose their ideas of order and their principles and norms in particular states or regions (Goddard, 2018). In this way, they establish a new system of influence that enables them to pursue and maintain their own interests in other places.…”

Section: Isolationism and Expansionismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis

Jang

Yang

2023

Global Networks

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The first purpose of this study is to define the network parameters that enable systemic analysis of international relations, identifying trends towards isolationism and expansionism. The second is to analyse the factors influencing global trends towards isolationism and expansionism from a structural point of view. The results of a network analysis, including a BERGM, indicate a trend towards isolationism in the economic arena since about 2010; in contrast, a trend towards expansionism has been continuously evident in the political and military sectors throughout the study period. These results also show that the international relations system is formed by reciprocal and triadic relations. In specific, the results reveal that the expansionism trends are influenced by relational substructures centred on importing states.

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“…The substantial literature that evolved around the consequences of Japan's electoral reform of 1994, which some scholars describe as a 'natural experiment,' follows this model (Cox et al, 2000;Giannetti and Grofman, 2011;Catalinac, 2016;Goplerud and Smith, 2021). Japan has also been examined as a key case to address general, substantive questions in areas such as trade policy and the evolution of the international order (Davis, 2003;Naoi, 2015;Lipscy, 2017;Goddard, 2018;Funabashi and Ikenberry, 2020). Another common approach is to leverage some feature of Japan advantageous for causal inferencee.g., as-if random assignment of attributes such as the timing of municipal elections and candidate surnamesor to conduct survey experiments on Japanese subjects to examine questions of broader significance (Fukumoto and Horiuchi, 2011;Fukumoto and Miwa, 2018;Kitagawa and Chu, 2021).…”

Section: Three Responses To Skepticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Japan: the harbinger state

Lipscy

2022

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Why study Japan? Research on contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy faces headwinds from the relative geopolitical decline of Japan and scholars skeptical about single-country studies. An overview of Japanese politics publications in English-language journals over the past four decades suggests the subfield remains active and robust. However, there is still room to grow. I argue that Japan is a harbinger state, which experiences many challenges before others in the international system. As such, studying Japan can inform both scholars and policymakers about the political challenges other countries are likely to confront in the future. In turn, scholarship on Japan offers a critical opportunity to develop theoretical insights, assess early empirical evidence, and offer policy lessons about emerging challenges and the political contestation surrounding them. I consider the reasons why Japan so often emerges as a harbinger across issue areas and suggest areas for ongoing scholarly attention.

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When Right Makes Might

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): Causal Generalization in Case Study and Multimethod Research

Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): Causal Generalization in Case Study and Multimethod Research

Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis

Japan: the harbinger state

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