One might argue that political science has gone further than any other social science in
developing a rigorous field of study devoted to qualitative methods. This review article …

“A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward
theorizing in qualitative research.”—Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis …

Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most
defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for …

Abstract 'Causal inference', in 21st century epidemiology, has notably come to stand for a
specific approach, one focused primarily on counterfactual and potential outcome reasoning …

John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It
offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of …

Researchers misunderstand their role in creating ethical problems when they allow dogmas
to purportedly divorce scientists and scientific practices from the values that they embody …

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in a series of issues related to migration,
including identity formation and change, the role of social capital and social networks, ethnic …

Drawing on early pragmatist theorizing, the authors propose three interrelated
methodological activities for the construction of robust causal claims in ethnographic …

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage,
kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to …

While acknowledging the many forms and contributions of multi-method research (MMR), we
examine the costs of treating it as best practice on the grounds that it reduces method …