Make a comparative analysis of these two articles:
Fish, M. Steven. 2017. What has a quarter-century of post-Communism taught us about the correlates of democracy?, Chapter 1 in Fish, M. Steven, Graeme J. Gill, and Milenko Petrovic (eds.) A Quarter Century of Post-Communism Assessed, Springer Nature.
Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. 2006. Linkage versus Leverage. Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change, Comparative Politics, 38:4, 379400
define or conceptualise the main variables (explanatory factors, outcomes) in their analysis, select and use evidence to measure or observe those variables and build, test, investigate, and/or support their theoretical argument(s) to explain variation in their dependent variable / outcome of interest.
additional articles:
Democratic Authoritarianism: Origins and Effects
Dawn Brancati
Vol. 17:313-326 (Volume publication date May 2014
Political Research: Methods and Practical Skills (4th edn)
Sandra Halperin and Oliver Heath
Issues and methods in comparative politics: an introduction
Book by Todd Landman 2003 2nd ed

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