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The only accessible, practical and discipline-specific qualitative methods textbook on the market. Introduces theoretical issues in parallel with step-by-step guidance on 'how to do qualitative research' and 'how it has been done' in seminal published research.
List of contents
Part 1: Foundations of qualitative research
Chapter 1: What is qualitative research?
Chapter 2: Theory, Methodology and Methods in Politics and International Relations
Chapter 3: How do I ask a good research question?
Chapter 4: Collecting qualitative data
Chapter 5: Some challenges of research design and of qualitative data analysis
Chapter 6: Ethical considerations
PART 2: Doing qualitative research
Chapter 7: Ethnographic field research
Chapter 8: Content-centred research
Chapter 9: Discourse analysis
Chapter 10: Historical research
About the author
Corina Lacatus is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. During 2020-2021, she is a Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow at the Queen’s University Belfast.
Corina′s research explores international organisations’ responses to complex humanitarian crises, focusing on crises of forced human displacement and public health. It is at the intersection of International Relations and Comparative Politics but also engages actively with Political Communication scholarship. Writ large, she is a scholar of international co-operation and global governance, focusing on the influence that international organisations like the United Nations and the European Union have on domestic institutions, politics, and societies. So far, her research has explored these dynamics in different areas of policy-making and practice – crisis management, south-to-north and south-to-south migration, human rights, peace agreements and human rights after conflict, and corruption control.
In addition, she has developed a research agenda in Political Communication, focusing on the formation and strategic uses of electoral rhetoric to advance populist political agendas. She has carried out analyses of large bodies of social media data (Twitter-based) and other Internet-based data – blogs, press releases, rally speeches and video material.
