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The Causes of Village Cooperation: Comment on Ragin, Shulman, Weinberg, and Gran

Robert Hunter Wade

London School of Economics

Markus Goldstein

London School of Economics

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.

Key Words: statistical methods • collective action • social conflict • ecology • Indian villages

Field Methods, Vol. 15, No. 4, 341-350 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X03257393
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