Robert H. Bates
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
Edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes
Abstract and Keywords
This article presents a strategy for political research. It first explores the ways people comprehend and briefly discusses the forms of comprehension. The next section introduces the author's fieldwork in the coffee zones of East Africa. This reveals that the first step of the strategy is immersion, and the second is a movement from insight to explanation, which is marked by the production of theory. Finally, it shows that the resultant explanation may be logically coherent, faithful to the original intuition, and consistent with the observations that inspired it.
Keywords: strategy, political research, forms of comprehension, immersion, production of theory, insight, explanation http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199219322.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199219322-e-29 Case Study Methods
Andrew Bennett and Colin Elman
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations
Edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal
Конец формы
Abstract and Keywords
This article focuses on a third generation of qualitative methods research. Third-generation qualitative methods provide a unique bridge between the single-logic-of-inference and interpretivist communities. Accepting comparison and intuitive regression as part of its underlying justification, the third-generation case study approach is readily compatible with large-n studies, as well as being accepting of many of the claims of the comparative advantages offered by quantitative methods. The article considers some of the ways in which the third generation has developed and suggest potentially fruitful directions for future research. It focuses on some key innovations in