Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies (eBook)

An Integrated Approach

Gary Goertz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8811-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study researchMultimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law, or business. This authoritative and accessible book offers the first truly comprehensive approach to multimethod and case-study research, and is particularly aimed at students of qualitative methods in the social sciences.Walking step-by-step through these cutting-edge tools and techniques, Gary Goertz introduces a new integrated approach that unites three corners of a powerful research triad-causal mechanisms, cross-case causal inference, and within-case causal inference. He explains how the investigation of causal mechanisms and the making of within-case causal inference are the central goals of multimethod and case study research, and provides a logic for connecting case studies and causal mechanism analysis with cross-case analysis, whether they are statistical analyses, experiments, or QCA. In addition, Goertz analyzes how one can generalize using case studies, as well as systematically test game-theoretic and other models using multiple case studies.Provides a fully integrated approach to multimethod and case-study researchAn essential resource for students and researchers in political science, sociology, education, law, and businessCovers constraint causal mechanism, game theory and case studies, QCA, and the use of case studies to systematically test and generalize theoriesAn ideal textbook for a first-year graduate course in methods or research design

Autor

Gary Goertz is professor of political science and peace studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His many books include A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences and Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide (both Princeton) and The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 21 line illus. 19 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Addition • Additive model • Ambiguity • authoritarianism • average treatment effect • Boolean algebra (structure) • Cambridge University Press • Case study • Causal chain • causal inference • Causality • causal model • Coalition Government • collinearity • Commodity • Comparative historical research • comparative politics • confounding • Consideration • Control variable • counterexample • data set • Definition • Democratic Peace Theory • Democratization • Economic Growth • economist • Emergence • Equifinality • estimation • Explanation • Exploratory data analysis • external validity • Fuzzy Logic • Great Power • Guideline • hypothesis • Ideology • Illustration • inference • Institution • International Relations • Likelihood Function • linear algebra • Literature • Logic • Logit • Measurement • Methodology • Natural science • observational study • on war • Overdetermination • Oxford University Press • Pairwise comparison • Parameter • percentage • Philosophy • political opportunity • Political Science • practice research • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Principle • Probability • Process tracing • proportional representation • Psychology • Qualitative Comparative Analysis • Qualitative research • Quantity • Randomized experiment • Rational Choice Theory • Regime • Regression Analysis • Requirement • result • Sampling (Statistics) • Scholarly method • Selection bias • skepticism • social constructivism • Social Science • Sociology • States and Social Revolutions • Statistic • statistical significance • Statistics • Subset • Suggestion • Surveying • Terminology • Textbook • theory • Thesis • Trade-off • Unit of analysis • Variable (mathematics) • vocabulary • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8811-5 / 1400888115
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8811-5 / 9781400888115