@article {525666,
	title = {Methodological Problems in the Study of Nation-Building: Behaviorism and Historicist Solutions in Political Science},
	journal = {Social Science Quarterly},
	volume = {96},
	number = {3},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {740-758},
	abstract = {The goal of this article is to highlight the methodological problems involved in the study of nation-building and propose solutions. I identify three categories of methodological problems that flow from respective practices in social science research: (i) inferring intentions from observed behavior or outcomes; (ii) relying on census data to infer a country{\textquoteright}s ethnic diversity; and (iii) arbitrary periodization and anachronism, that is, attributing certain actions to concepts and/or phenomena that were not politically salient or even understood by the actors under study.},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12189/abstract},
	author = {Mylonas, Harris}
}
