The new comparative-historical method and its contributions to political science and public administration

Resumo

This article seeks to identify the contributions that the new comparative-historical method has made to political science and public administration in Brazil. By showing how recent advances in this new historical-comparative method can generate analytical gains through a more precise establishment of causal conditions, and through the use of tests associated with process tracing, the article hopes to contribute to the strengthening of the qualitative-based research of these two disciplines in Brazil. To achieve this, the paper begins by dissecting the main elements of this method. It then reviews, and reorganizes, as it were, the classic work entitled Sessenta e quatro: anatomia da crise (Sixty-four: anatomy of the crisis) by Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos, in light of the method’s main tenets. The paper also reviews and reorganizes a number of studies on Argentina’s foreign policy in the same light and highlights the gains that can be generated by the disciplined application of the historical-comparative method. In the conclusion, the potential and the limitations of the method are identified, and some final considerations are made with regard to the importance that its application could have to Brazil’s political science and public administration.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2016

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Também disponível em

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.1590/0034-7612156950

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/20997

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Administração Pública

Palavras-chave

comparative-historical methodprocess tracingcausal conditionsBrazilian politicsArgentina’s foreign policymétodo histórico-comparativorastreo de procesoscondiciones causalespolítica brasileñapolítica exterior argentina.mapeamento de processoscondições causaispolítica brasileirapolítica externa argentina.