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Researching Non-State Actors in International Security
Researching Non-State Actors in International Security: Theory and Practice Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Non-State Actors (Chapter 9) Mello, Patrick A. (2017) Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Non-State Actors, in Andrea Schneiker and Andreas Kruck ed., Researching Non-State Actors in International Security: Theory & Practice, London: Routledge, 123-142. Book Abstract: “All researchers face the same challenge,… Continue reading →
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Lecture at Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven
Patrick A. Mello on ‘Parliamentary Rebellion in Cases of War and Peace? Comparing the UK and Germany’ Jean Monnet Network PACO, 2017 Spring Lecture Series: Rebels With a Cause? Parliamentary Resilience in European and Global Governance Lecture Series Introduction: “European and global governance have in common that they refer to policy-making and problem-solving beyond traditional nation states. Often, the role… Continue reading →
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Special Issue on “Parliaments and Security Policy”
Proposal for a Special Issue on “Parliaments and Security Policy” Accepted by BJPIR The Editors of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) have accepted a proposal for a special issue on “Parliaments and Security Policy”, guest-edited by Patrick A. Mello and Dirk Peters, to be published in early 2018. Summary: This special issue zeroes in on the… Continue reading →
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Book Review in Perspectives on Politics
Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict Reviewed by Anja Jetschke (University of Göttingen) The new issue of Perspectives on Politics (15: 1) contains a review of Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). From the review: “Patrick A. Mello addresses a set of important questions: Why and under what conditions do democracies participate in armed conflict? Do constitutional provisions that… Continue reading →
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The British House of Commons and the Conflicts in Libya and Syria
Curbing the Royal Prerogative to Use Military Force: The British House of Commons and the Conflicts in Libya and Syria Abstract: “To what extent does political practice under the British Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition (2010–2015) reflect a ‘parliamentary prerogative’? From a formal-institutional point of view one should not expect substantial parliamentary influence in Britain. Yet recent developments suggest the emergence of… Continue reading →
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Two Entries Published in The SAGE Encyclopedia of War
Democratic Peace Theory Abstract: “Democracies almost never go to war against each another. This simple observation has acquired the status of an empirical law in the social sciences. Yet, while democracies tend to have peaceful relations with one another, this is not to claim that democracies are generally less war-prone than other regime types. To the contrary, many empirical studies… Continue reading →
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4th International QCA Expert Workshop at ETH Zurich
Panel Debate on Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Research Transparency Panelists: Gary Goertz, Peer Fiss, Patrick A. Mello, and Eva Thomann Workshop Summary: “With the 4th International QCA Expert Workshop we build on the workshops of the past three years in bringing together around 40 researchers working with QCA across and beyond the neighboring areas of political sciences, sociology, management, and… Continue reading →
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Parliaments in Security Policy
German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) Supports Project on “Parliaments in Security Policy” Project Summary: The influence of parliaments on the formulation of security policy has found increasing interest in recent research. Importantly, comparative studies showed that consolidated democracies are characterized by substantial variance in the formal-institutional oversight powers of parliaments. While countries like the UK and France grant extensive… Continue reading →
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Swiss Social Science Summer School 2016
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Patrick A. Mello) Methods Course at the 20th Swiss Social Science Summer School Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 22-26 August 2016 The workshop provides participants with a thorough introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), both as a research approach and as a data analysis technique. In recent years, this set-theoretic method has gained recognition among social scientists… Continue reading →
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ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques 2016
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets Patrick A. Mello (Week 1), Carsten Q. Schneider (Week 2), and Nena Oana (Teaching Assistant) Methods Course taught for the European Consortium for Political Research at Central European University, Budapest, 28 July – 13 August 2016 Course Outline: “This course introduces participants to set-theoretic methods and their application in the social sciences with a… Continue reading →