Rethinking Comparison - Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry

Table des matières

1. Rethinking comparison: an introduction Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith; Part I. Rethinking the Building Blocks of Comparison: 2. Beyond mill: why cross-case qualitative causal inference is weak, and why we should still compare Jason Seawright; 3. Two ways to compare Frederic Charles Schaffer; 4. Unbound comparison Nick Cheesman; 5. On casing a study versus studying a case Joe Soss; 6. From cases to sites: studying global processes in comparative politics Thea Riofrancos; Part II. Developing New Approaches to Comparison Through Research: 7. Comparing complex cases using archival research Jonathan Obert; 8. Composing comparisons: studying configurations of relations in social network research Sarah E. Parkinson; 9. Against methodological nationalism: seeing comparisons as encompassing through the Arab uprisings Jillian Schwedler; 10. Comparative analysis for theory development Mala Htun and Francesca R. Jensenius; 11. Problems and possibilities of comparison across regime types: examples involving China Benjamin L. Read; 12. Comparisons with an ethnographic sensibility: studies of protest and vigilantism Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith; Epilogue: 13. Theory and imagination in comparative politics: an interview with Lisa Wedeen Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith with Lisa Wedeen.

Résumé

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design. Provides novel strategies for conducting comparative political research beyond the controlled comparisons typically taught in graduate methods courses.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Erica S. (University of Wisconsin Simmons
• Collaboration: Nicholas Rush Smith (Editeur), Erica Simmons (Editeur), Erica S. Simmons (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781108832793
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83279-3
• Pages: 225
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, REFERENCE / Research, Comparative Politics, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology