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This chapter highlights and defends a mixed-method approach to explaining capitalist divergence. The chapter discusses major research questions, relevant variables, hypotheses, and predicted outcomes. I draw attention to other studies applying similar techniques, specifically those using panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE) analysis supplemented by process-tracing case studies.
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Arsenault, M.P. (2017). A Mixed-Method Approach to Capitalist Variation. In: The Effects of Political Institutions on Varieties of Capitalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50892-4_3
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