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The study of politics and democracy: touchstones of a research agenda / Gerardo L. Munck -- Reconceptualizing democratization: access to power versus exercise of power / Sebastián L. Mazzuca -- Neo-Madisonian theory and Latin American institutions / Royce Carroll, Matthew Søberg Shugart -- Thickening thin concepts: issues in large-n data generation / Michael Coppedge -- Classifying political regimes in Latin America, 1945-2004 / Scott Mainwaring, Daniel Brinks, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán -- Theory building and hypothesis testing: large-n versus small-n research on democratization / Michael Coppedge -- Democracy and growth: a case study in failed causal inference / Jason Seawright -- Why regions of the world are important: regional specificities and region-wide diffusion of democracy / Scott Mainwaring, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán -- Democracy, dictatorship, and economic development: a model of reference-dependent choices with experimental data / Andrew C. Gould, Andrew J. Maggio