1.
The Five Qualitative Approaches: Problem, Purpose, and Questions/The Role of Theory in the Five Qualitative Approaches/Comparative Case Study
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 04 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
Walden University
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18,521
2.
A Critical Review of Qualitative Interviews
European Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 2014, Vol. 3, No. 4
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 16 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
Majmaah University
Downloads
11,622
3.
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
9,115
4.
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
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8,162
5.
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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6,242
6.
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
Downloads
5,069
7.
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
4,884
8.
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 SchoolIT University of Copenhagen
Downloads
4,750
9.
Objectivity in Social Sciences
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 22 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
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3,929
10.
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
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3,815
11.
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
2,635
12.
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
Google Inc. and Microsoft Research
Downloads
2,563
13.
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 (UCSB)
Downloads
2,532
14.
Understanding Feminist Research Methodology in Social Sciences
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 15 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
Punjabi University, Department of Economics and Punjabi University-Department of Economics
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2,511
15.
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
2,148
16.
LexNLP: Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction For Legal and Regulatory Texts
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 21 Jun 2018
Working Paper Series
Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and LexPredict, LLC
Downloads
1,995
17.
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
1,971
18.
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 SchoolIT University of Copenhagen
Downloads
1,681
19.
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
University of Canberra, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Australian National University - Research School of Management
Downloads
1,662
20.
Benefits of Comparative Foreign Policy
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 26 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
McGill University
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1,656
21.
Syria: A Case Study in International Law
University of Cincinnati Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 13 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Government of the United States of America - Stockton Center for the Study of International Law
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1,529
22.
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)
Downloads
1,526
23.
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
1,469
24.
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
1,460
25.
David Easton's 'Authoritative Value Allocation' - Activating the Definition's Potential
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 02 Feb 2017
Working Paper Series
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - Center for Comparative and International Studies
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1,439
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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1,417
27.
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
1,370
28.
Understanding Process Tracing
PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 823-830, October 2011
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 03 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 07 Mar 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science
Downloads
1,347
29.
Designing a Methodology to Investigate Accessibility and Impact of Financial Inclusion
Household finance e-journal-CMBO
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 19 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 01 Nov 2021
Accepted Paper Series
St. Aloysius Evening College, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal and St Aloysius College
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1,342
30.
The Comparative Method in Legal Research: The Art of Justifying Choices
To be published in Laura Cahillane and Jennifer Schweppe (eds), Legal Research Methods: Principles and Practicalities (Clarus Press 2016), UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09/16
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 22 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
UCD Sutherland School of Law
Downloads
1,309
31.
Methodology in Public Administration
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 01 Apr 2014
Working Paper Series
National Autonomous University of Mexico - Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
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1,298
32.
An Introduction to the Methods of Inquiry in Social Sciences
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences -2018, vol. 5, n. 2, pp. 116-126
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Accepted Paper Series
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Downloads
1,286
33.
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
1,221
34.
A Bayesian Alternative to Synthetic Control for Comparative Case Studies
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 13 Oct 2020
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2021
Working Paper Series
Tsinghua University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Political Science and Stanford University
Downloads
1,208
35.
Analyzing Talk and Text II: Thematic Analysis
This text will appear as chapter 22 in Van den Bulck, H., Puppis, M., Donders, K. & Van Audenhove, L. (Eds.) (2019, in press). The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 15 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 04 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Faculty of History and Arts and Erasmus University Rotterdam
Downloads
1,163
36.
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
1,118
37.
Comparative Methods and Process Tracing
American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, Working Group Final Reports, Report III.1 (January 2019)
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 15 Feb 2019
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University - Department of Government, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Temple University Political Science Department
Downloads
1,067
38.
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
1,025
39.
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
Princeton University - Department of Psychology and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
1,003
40.
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
Downloads
996
41.
Weber's Methodology: Understanding Concept of Ideal Type as Necessary Element of Weberian Comprehensive Sociology
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 09 Aug 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Montreal
Downloads
970
42.
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 SchoolUIC John Marshall Law School
Downloads
938
43.
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 and University of Helsinki - Faculty of Law
Downloads
903
44.
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
889
45.
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
885
46.
Introductions to Qualitative Research in Political Science. Sage Library of Political Science; Four Volumes, Published 2016
Qualitative Research in Political Science, SAGE Library of Political Science; Four Volumes, published 2016
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 23 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Lucerne, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Faculty of Social Science and Tilburg University
Downloads
872
47.
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
865
48.
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
851
49.
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
Downloads
842
50.
The Comparative Method: Two Decades of Change
Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 08 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Political Science
Downloads
831
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