" What are the most effective methods to code and analyze data for a particular study? This
thoughtful and engaging book reviews the selection criteria for coding and analyzing any set …

AECT Design & Development Outstanding Book Award for 2008! Design and Development
Research thoroughly discusses methods and strategies appropriate for conducting design …

Qualitative political science, the use of textual evidence to reconstruct causal mechanisms
across a limited number of cases, is currently undergoing a methodological revolution. Many …

A quarter century ago, in 1987, Charles C. Ragin published The Comparative Method,
introducing a new method to the social sciences called Qualitative Comparative Analysis …

International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years,
restructuring the way states interact with each other, international institutions, and their own …

The presidential-parliamentary distinction is foundational to comparative politics and at the
center of a large theoretical and empirical literature. However, an examination of …

An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston,
Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods. Environmental …

People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations,
regardless of the site's main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their …

We review the basis for inferring causation by means of linear statistical models. Parameters
should be stable under interventions, and so should error distributions. There are also …

Drawing general inferences on the basis of single-case and small-n studies is often seen as
problematic. This article suggests a logic of generalization based on thinly rationalistic social …