The Causes of Village Cooperation

Comment on Ragin, Shulman, Weinberg, and Gran

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ID2407201
AutoresRobert Hunter Wade (0009-0005-8584-8258, London School of Economics and Political Science), Marjorie Goldstein (0000-0002-6971-7259, London School of Economics and Political Science), Markus Goldstein (0000-0003-2631-6882, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Año2003
Volumen15
Número4
Páginas341-350
Fecha de publicación2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCAM (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1525822x03257393
OpenAlexW2074118494
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas6

Village Republics (VR) (Wade 1988) explains village-based collective action in terms of intravillage conflict rooted in ecological conditions. Ragin et al. (2003 [this issue]) say that VR 's data point to intervillage conflict as the main driver-villagers organize themselves against incursions from people in other villages intent on stealing their resources. The authors show how Ragin et al. misstate VR 's argument and go on to describe problems with their measurement of key variables (intervillage density, water location, collective action). The authors end with some thoughts about a more general problem with the quantitative comparative analysis method-it throws out confidence-affecting information that both qualitative case studies and quantitative statistical analyses would use

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