Small N Large N

- Relationship is already construed/ - relationship is probabilistic (careful in

assumed/ determined
- Small changes have no significant
effects
- Measurement is dispensable
- Producing thick description
- Higher margin of error
- Relationship is already construed/
assumed/ determined
- More delved on depth (perception and
interpretation)
- Focuses on one case only
measurement)
- lower margin of error
- objective/ goal to reach that level of
certainty
- concerned with changes in numerical values
and strengths of a particular variable to an
observation

(1) Probabilistic instead of deterministic

(2) Relationship can be measured (careful in measurement)

(3) Multiple cause/ variables involved in producing an outcome

- Open to understand a particular phenomenon by treating every variable a
possible cause
- The bigger the cases, the bigger the number of variables, the better
understanding
(4)

Przeworski and Limongi Modernization

- Used linear regression (simple statistical model) to illustrate/ how we can make sense of
the phenomenon of democratization and modernization (economic development)
- Interested on on the indicators of wealth (135 countries)
- Conventional understanding
- Old theory
- Existence of middle class population that has access to wealth– freedom
- The more people that have an access to wealth, the better/ stabler the democracy
- Modernization leads to democracy
- Purports the positive association between modernization and democracy
- To what extent? With measurable quantity
- Used simple regression- linear (with constant alpha variable
Conditions:
- Identification of wealth vis-a-vis the democratic level of a country
(1) Authoritarian – per capita income (6,000), a society will still stay as is
 e.g., South Korea, Malaysia Singapore
Authoritarian – per capita income (1,001- 4,000), a society will democratize
Authoritarian – per capita income (1,000 and below), a society will not democratize
(non-democratic society will remain or a democratic country will remain non-democratic)