Social Science

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

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An extended methodological dialogue is bringing the comparative ad- vantages of case study methods for theory development into sharper fo- cus. Our own personal dialogue began with intermittent conversations in the 1990s on our independent work on case study methods. We both felt that the time was ripe to draw on the lessons learned from the wide- spread use of sophisticated case study methods developed in recent decades. These include Alexander George’s method of “structured, fo- cused comparison of cases,” which outlines process-tracing and other within-case modes of analysis as key complements or alternatives to con- trolled comparison of cases, Arend Lijphart and Harry Eckstein’s extremely useful elaborations of different theory-building kinds of case studies, and Charles Ragin’s analysis of interactions effects and comparative methods of studying them.

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: ., 2004

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1-48

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English

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