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If I chose to use the interpretivist method, I plan to research the causes of the current outbreak of violence in Nicaragua that started in April of 2018 because I want to find out why there have been repeated outbreaks…

One of the qualitative data sources I would like to use for my dependent variable: economic development, is a presentation given on global and regional outlook during a regional conference for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic that was…

As a note before I begin, I have decided to make modern day development my sole independent variable and removed stability as a variable, due to concerns about the scope of my research. When examining various data sets, I found…

I am proposing to research historical levels of violence in independence movements in Latin America because I want to find out what explains postcolonial development trends in order to help my reader’s understand why there is a variation in modern…

“Decolonization and State Building in South Asia” by Sumantra Bose is a small-n case study which analyzes the political development of multiple South Asian countries: India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It concludes that in the initial postcolonial development, trends are…

I understand the concept of ontology as the way of thinking about approaching research through understanding the way in which you view the world and larger aspects of your personal philosophy. While it’s the way of understanding what constitutes a…

My topic area of interest is how the level of violence in Latin American Independence movements impacts the modern levels of stability and development in those countries. I originally became interested in this topic while in my History class in…