Qualitative methods are relatively scarce in public administration research. This imbalance
between qualitative and quantitative methods poses three significant concerns. First, there is …

administration research. While more time (and space) would be needed to adequately
address this question, the current issue gives us the opportunity to speak to one of the recent …

Recently, there have been a variety of arguments voiced to encourage that more attention
be given to the role qualitative methods can play in mixed methods research in public policy …

This article addresses the strategies and tools that public administration scholars use to
understand phenomena of interest. The range of qualitative methods used has been limited …

Institutions are useful for advancing methodologies within disciplines. Through required
coursework, doctoral students are indoctrinated into basic guidelines and frameworks that …

Although the methods wars that were entrenched in most of the social science disciplines
well into the 1990s have purportedly ceased, methodological diversity remains rare in public …

Research in the field of public administration has changed and advanced significantly in
recent years. These advancements concern both how we engage in research—such as the …

Public administration scholarship reflects a multidisciplinary field in which many theoretical
perspectives coexist. However, one of the dark sides of such theoretical pluralism is …

There is little methodological guidance regarding how to best integrate qualitative
observational case study data and quantitative large-N observational data in the study of …

Over the last decades, the use of mixed methods (MMs) has been burgeoning across social
sciences. MMs have also been recommended as a viable research strategy for conducting …