Rethinking Comparison (eBook, PDF)

Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry
Redaktion: Simmons, Erica S.

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Produktbeschreibung

Qualitative comparative methods - and specifically controlled qualitative comparisons - are central to the study of politics. They are not the only kind of comparison, though, that can help us better understand political processes and outcomes. Yet there are few guides for how to conduct non-controlled comparative research. This volume brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars from across the discipline of political science, including positivist and interpretivist scholars, qualitative methodologists, mixed-methods researchers, ethnographers, historians, and statisticians. Their work revolutionizes qualitative research design by diversifying the repertoire of comparative methods available to students of politics, offering readers clear suggestions for what kinds of comparisons might be possible, why they are useful, and how to execute them. By systematically thinking through how we engage in qualitative comparisons and the kinds of insights those comparisons produce, these collected essays create new possibilities to advance what we know about politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108967297
• Artikelnr.: 66183935

Inhaltsangabe

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.