In order to begin their own research, Fallon, Swiss, and Viterna (2012) review prior attempts to understand women’s political power and democracy. They find that quantitative studies with this focus are often “Large-scale cross-national studies [that] seek world-wide, generalizable patterns in women’s legislative representation.” (p. 382) What term best describes the type of research being used in the quantitative studies that Fallon et al. depict?
a. historical events research
b. historical process research
c. cross-sectional comparative research
d. comparative historical research
e. none of these
