1.
Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method
American Journal of Political Science. 2014, Forthcoming, Formerly MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2011-25
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 28 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 08 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University and Stanford University - Department of Political Science
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3,923
2.
The Comparative Method
POLITICAL SCIENCE: THE STATE OF DISCIPLINE II, Ada W. Finifter, ed., American Political Science Association, 1993
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 21 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science
Downloads
3,800
3.
Difficulties Encountered by the Student – Researchers and the Effects on Their Research Output
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 20 May 2010
Last Revised: 26 Jan 2014
Working Paper Series
Gulf College
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3,021
4.
Case Study
Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds., The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 301-316
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 13 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads
2,616
5.
Facebook is... Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation
APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
University of New Mexico - Department of Political Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Santa Barbara
Downloads
2,238
6.
A Guide to Conducting a Systematic Literature Review of Information Systems Research
Number of pages: 2
Posted: 05 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 09 Dec 2015
Working Paper Series
SKEMA Business School and Independent
Downloads
1,915
7.
Realism, Constructivism, and International Relations Theory
APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Florida - Department of Political Science
Downloads
1,896
8.
What is Process-Tracing Actually Tracing? The Three Variants of Process Tracing Methods and Their Uses and Limitations
APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 01 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 21 Aug 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Aarhus and Aarhus University - Department of Political Science
Downloads
1,705
9.
Multistakeholder as Governance Groups: Observations from Case Studies
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2015-1
Number of pages: 277
Posted: 15 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 18 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and University of Southern California - Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Downloads
1,672
10.
Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change
ASSESSING THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES, Sandra Batie and Nicholas Mercuro, eds., London: Routledge Press, 2008
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 03 Jul 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA)
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1,369
11.
Objectivity in Social Sciences
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 22 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
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1,283
12.
Qualitative and Quantitative Research: How to Choose the Best Design
Presented at Academic Business World International Conference. Nashville, Tennessee. May, 2007
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 20 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Pensacola Christian College
Downloads
1,244
13.
Text Preprocessing for Unsupervised Learning: Why It Matters, When It Misleads, and What to Do about It
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 03 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
Pennsylvania State University and New York University
Downloads
1,103
14.
Situating Methods in the Magic of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Communication Monographs, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 21 Sep 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute
Downloads
1,101
15.
Understanding Process Tracing
PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 823-830, October 2011
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 03 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 26 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science
Downloads
1,060
16.
Teaching Process Tracing: Exercises and Examples
PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 823-830, October 2011
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 16 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 26 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science
Downloads
1,031
17.
Making Social Science Matter
Georgios Papanagnou, ed., Social Science and Policy Challenges: Democracy, Values, and Capacities, Paris: UNESCO Publishing, pp. 25-56
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 13 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads
963
18.
Culture and Individual Judgment and Decision Making
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 49, pp. 32-61, 2000
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 24 May 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Management & Psychology and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
920
19.
Should You Be a Faculty Research Assistant?
Student Lawyer, Vol. 36, No. 1, p. 35, September 2007
Posted: 11 Sep 2008
Accepted Paper Series
The John Marshall Law School
Downloads
901
20.
Designing a Methodology to Investigate Accessibility and Impact of Financial Inclusion
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 19 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
St. Aloysius Evening College, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal and St Aloysius College
Downloads
889
21.
A Critical Realist Guide to Developing Theory with Systematic Literature Reviews
Number of pages: 2
Posted: 23 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 09 Dec 2015
Working Paper Series
SKEMA Business School
Downloads
864
22.
Two or Three Approaches to Explanatory Case Study Research?
APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 13 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012
Working Paper Series
Erasmus University Rotterdam - Faculty of Social Science and University of Lucerne
Downloads
801
23.
Conceptualizing, Analyzing and Measuring Political Risk: The Evolution of Theory and Method
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper No. LKYSPP08-004
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 18 Jul 2008
Working Paper Series
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Downloads
780
24.
A Critical Review of Applications in Qca and Fuzzy-Set Analysis and a 'Toolbox' of Proven Solutions to Frequently Encountered Problems
APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 13 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2015
Working Paper Series
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt
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754
25.
Measuring Human Rights: Reflections on the Practice of Human Rights Impact Assessment and Lessons for the Future
Warwick School of Law Research Paper No. 2010/26
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 12 Nov 2010
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick - School of Law
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746
26.
Transparency in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: A Symposium
Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association's QMMR Section vol.13 no.1 (Spring 2015): 2-64.
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 28 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Technische Universität München (TUM) - School of Governance - Hochschule für Politik, University of British Columbia (UBC), Middlebury College, University of Washington, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Global Policy & Strategy, 21st Century China Center, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis - Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Yale University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard University, Princeton University - Department of Sociology, Harvard University - Department of Government, Vassar College, Central European University (CEU), Goethe University Frankfurt and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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724
27.
Putting Typologies to Work: Concept Formation, Measurement, and Analytic Rigor
Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 2, June 2012
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 07 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 26 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science, University of Oxford - Department of Politics and International Relations and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
Downloads
722
28.
The Politics of Legal Challenges to Pornography: Canada, Sweden, and the United States
Stockholm Studies in Politics No. 160. Ph.D. diss., Stockholm University, 2014. ISBN 9789176490471.
Number of pages: 582
Posted: 20 Dec 2014
Last Revised: 25 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Stockholm University, Department of Political Science
Downloads
703
29.
Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies
SHAPING THE POLITICAL ARENA: CRITICAL JUNCTURES, THE LABOR MOVEMENT, AND REGIME DYNAMICS IN LATIN AMERICA, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 30 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science
Downloads
699
30.
Empiricism and International Law: Insights for Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution
Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 48, 2008, Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-33
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 30 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 20 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
American University - Washington College of Law
Downloads
693
31.
A Dialogue on Comparative Functionalism
Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Vol. 18, pp. 554-558, 2011
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 30 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI) and University of Helsinki - Faculty of Law
Downloads
692
32.
Assessing Reforms of Government Accounting and Budgeting
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Number of pages: 24
Posted: 10 Nov 2004
Last Revised: 19 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
Central Washington University and Northern Arizona University
Downloads
692
33.
Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 13 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, World Bank eMBeD (Mind, Behavior, and Development), The World Bank, Columbia University SIPA and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
There are 2 versions of this paper
Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 13 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2015
Downloads
652
Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
NBER Working Paper No. w21447
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 18 Aug 2015
Downloads
6
Downloads
652
34.
Political Political Science: A Phronetic Approach
New Political Science, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 359-372, 2013
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 16 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Bryn Mawr College, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Essex
There are 2 versions of this paper
Political Political Science: A Phronetic Approach
New Political Science, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 359-372, 2013
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 16 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2013
Downloads
635
Political Political Science: A Phronetic Approach
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 23 Aug 2015
Downloads
40
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635
35.
Important Next Steps in Phronetic Social Science
Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman, and Sanford Schram, eds., Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 285-297, DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511719912.016
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 13 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Essex and Bryn Mawr College - Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
Downloads
629
36.
Benefits of Comparative Foreign Policy
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 26 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
McGill University
Downloads
622
37.
Analyzing Ideas and Tracing Discursive Interactions in Institutional Change: From Historical Institutionalism to Discursive Institutionalism
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 17 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
Boston University
Downloads
608
38.
Seeing Double: Human Rights Impact Through Qualitative and Quantitative Eyes
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 09 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 09 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy and Carleton University - Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Downloads
600
39.
Mixed Methods: Combining Expert Interviews, Cross-Impact Analysis and Scenario Development
The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2012 (pp 09-21)
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 25 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Melbourne Institute of Technology - School of Business, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and
Downloads
592
40.
Small Data, Data Infrastructures and Big Data
GeoJournal 80(4): 463-475, 2014, The Programmable City Working Paper 1
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 08 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 28 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Maynooth University) - NIRSA and Carleton University - School of Journalism and Communication Studies
Downloads
592
41.
Toward a New Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (NIASES): Combining Elinor Ostrom's IAD and SES Frameworks
Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 299, Indiana University, Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper No. 2490999
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 05 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science
Downloads
589
42.
Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research
World Politics, Vol. 49, No. 1, October 1996
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 25 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University
Downloads
577
43.
Political Science Concept Formation (Part II) - David Easton's 'Authoritative Value Allocation'
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 21 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - Center for Comparative and International Studies
Downloads
576
44.
Making Organization Research Matter: Power, Values, and Phronesis
Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Walter R. Nord, eds., The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies, 2nd edition, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, pp. 370-387
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 14 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads
570
45.
Measuring Impact on the Immeasurable? Methodological Challenges in Evaluating Democracy and Governance Aid
APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 01 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 24 May 2012
Working Paper Series
DevTech Systems, Inc.
Downloads
564
46.
An Emerging Fact-Finding Discipline? A Conceptual Roadmap for Social Science Methods in Human Rights Advocacy
Forthcoming in THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS FACT-FINDING (Oxford: Philip Altson & Sarah Knuckey, eds., 2015), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-33
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 21 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law and Princeton University
Downloads
559
47.
Case Selection and Causal Inference in Qualitative Research
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 28 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 18 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
Vienna University of Economics and Business - Department of Socioeconomics, University of Essex - Department of Government and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Downloads
545
48.
Justifications for Qualitative Research in Organisations: A Step Forward
The Journal of Online Education (New York), January 2009
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 10 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Nottingham University Business School, Malaysia Campus and Nottingham University Business School, Malaysia Campus
Downloads
543
49.
Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics: Reconfiguring Problems and Mechanisms Across Research Traditions
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 11 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University
Downloads
537
50.
Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought
RatSWD_WP_ 218
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 01 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Downloads
536
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