Anatomy of a Literature Review

Existing research on Italian theater attendance

Our upside-down pyramid finally narrows to the research closest to our authors' in both content and geography. Castiglione and Infante begin reviewing the existing literature on theater attendance in Italy by summarizing Bonato et al.'s 1990 article.

Before continuing, note how long ago Bonato et al. published this work. Its age suggests this may be a neglected topic and again reinforces our authors' suggestion that this phenomenon deserves more scholarly attention.

In summarizing Bonato et al.'s findings, Castiglione and Infante focus on the authors' model, which employs OLS linear regression, a basic approach favored in the social sciences that determines the relationship between two or more quantitative variables.

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