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Gerardo L. Munck is associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently working on a book on democratization and economic change in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

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Munck, G.L. Canons of research design in qualitative analysis. St Comp Int Dev 33, 18–45 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687490

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