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dc.contributor.authorHagene, Turid
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-04T09:57:21Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-05T11:40:41Z
dc.date.available2017-09-04T09:57:21Z
dc.date.available2017-09-05T11:40:41Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationHagene T. The Power of Ethnography: A Useful Approach to Researching Politics. Forum for Development Studies. 2017language
dc.identifier.issn0803-9410
dc.identifier.issn1891-1765
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/5207
dc.description.abstractThis article explores and argues the suitability of ethnographic methods, primarily participant observation, in the research of politics, and in the construction of concepts for theory building. The argument is sustained by using a case study of a network of political clientelism and some instances of vote-buying in a native village in Mexico City. The author maintains that long-term participant observation is particularly well suited to discover puzzles and incongruities, which invite abductive reasoning, and allow for unplanned findings and new insights. Issues of legitimacy, moral universes and life-worlds, as well as tacit knowledge, local discourses and silences, are researchable with this methodological approach. The author suggests the study of politics would benefit from more scholars employing these methods.language
dc.language.isoenlanguage
dc.publisherTaylor & Francislanguage
dc.rightsThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Forum for Development Studies, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08039410.2017.1366360language
dc.subjectEthnographylanguage
dc.subjectRumourslanguage
dc.subjectGossiplanguage
dc.subjectTacit knowledgelanguage
dc.subjectMexicolanguage
dc.titleThe Power of Ethnography: A Useful Approach to Researching Politicslanguage
dc.typeJournal articlelanguage
dc.typePeer reviewedlanguage
dc.date.updated2017-09-04T09:57:21Z
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2017.1366360
dc.identifier.cristin1490708
dc.source.journalForum for Development Studies


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