2 hours compiling data, 1 hour emailing and planning travel, 2 hours analyzing data, page count = 203
Finished compiling force data for Peru and Bolivia. I'm now only missing Brazil army and police and Ecuador police for the endpoint of state formation. But for now, that's enough to work with.
As I suspected, adding in population size does make a difference. The military and police participation ratios (proportion of male population in the army and police, respectively) appear to have a relationship with regime outcomes, and in the direction I'd anticipated. But I need to take apart my measure of regime outcomes and make sure that's capturing what I want it to as well. An encouraging sign, anyway.
Still trying to figure out the right length for my May trip to Berkeley for graduation and filing. I may be able to cut a few days off the back end and be home for Memorial Day weekend, but I don't know for sure yet. TBD, hopefully in the next day or two.
From June 2007 to June 2008, I posted each weekday regarding progress on my dissertation. This blog was called "It Takes a Village to Write a Dissertation."
On August 15, 2008, I filed my dissertation, completing all the requirements for my Ph.D in Political Science from UC Berkeley. Friends and family, thank you for keeping me honest. Mission accomplished!
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STATUS OF CHAPTERS
Chapter 1: Armed Challenges, Security-Force Configurations, and Party Systems
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
Complete
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
CompleteChapter 3: Designing the Colombian Security Forces (1886-1910)
Complete
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
CompleteChapter 5: Conflict Rising: Politicized Security Forces and the Escalation of La Violencia (1945-48)
CompleteChapter 6: Generalized Conflict: Security Forces and Politicians in the "High" Period of La Violencia (1948-54)
Complete
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
CompleteConclusion
Complete
1 comment:
Looks like you were able to make some preliminary conclusions with the data; good that it is in line with what you were expecting. Although you have some logistics to finalize, make sure you get some solid writing time in too!
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