Sinopse

Comparative Methods continues to pave the way for a new approach to empirical social scientific work - i.e. a new, distinctive way to envisage the dialogue between ideas and evidence. The ambition of this approach is to develop a "synthetic strategy" that integrates some key strengths of both the "qualitative" (case-oriented) and "quantitative" (variable-oriented) approaches. The approach is also specifically suited for "small N" or "intermediate N" research situations, which both mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods find difficult to address. The text itself is broadly appealing at a two-tier level: the first offers a basic, comparative research design overview; the second provides a more technical review of QCA, MVQCA, and fuzzy sets.

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