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Robert Adcock
Researcher at American University
Publications - 22
Citations - 3020
Robert Adcock is an academic researcher from American University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Political science of religion. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 22 publications receiving 2868 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Adcock include George Washington University & Stanford University.
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Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Robert Adcock,David Collier +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss the contextual specificity of measurement claims, explore a variety of measurement strategies that seek to combine generality and validity by devoting greater attention to context, and address the proliferation of terms for alternative measurement validation procedures and offer an account of the three main types of validation most relevant to political scientists.
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Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Robert Adcock,David Collier +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss the contextual specificity of measurement claims, explore a variety of measurement strategies that seek to combine generality and validity by devoting greater attention to context, and address the proliferation of terms for alternative measurement validation procedures and offer an account of the three main types of validation most relevant to political scientists.
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DEMOCRACY AND DICHOTOMIES: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts
David Collier,Robert Adcock +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that how scholars understand and operationalize a concept can and should depend in part on what they are going to do with it and that the burden of demonstration should instead reston more specific arguments linked to the goals of research.
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DEMOCRACY AND DICHOTOMIES: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts
David Collier,Robert Adcock +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the pragmatic position that how scholars understand and operationalize a concept can and should depend in part on what they are going to do with it, and they consider justifications focused on the conceptualization of democratization as an event, the conceptual requireme...
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Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880
TL;DR: Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson as mentioned in this paper presented a history of political science in the UK, including the origins of a Historical Political Science in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain and the emergence of an Embryonic Discipline.