Strategies for comparative research in political science /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peters, B. Guy (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Political analysis (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:
Political science > Research > Methodology.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.The Importance of Comparison
  • Forms of comparative analysis
  • Types of comparative studies
  • The content of comparisons
  • Cross-time comparisons
  • Conclusion
  • 2.The Logic of Comparison
  • Comparative research design
  • Research design and case selection
  • Levels of analysis
  • Threats to validity in non-experimental research
  • Conclusion
  • 3.The Number of Cases and Which Ones?
  • Strategies with different numbers of cases
  • Small-N research in general
  • Conclusion
  • 4.Measurement and Bias
  • The traveling problem
  • Typologies
  • Triangulation
  • Nominal categories
  • Ideal-type analysis and measurement
  • Conclusion
  • 5.The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics
  • Levels of explanation
  • Macro-level theories
  • Meso-level theories
  • Micro-level theories
  • State and society
  • Conclusion
  • 6.The Case Study
  • Improving case research
  • Case studies
  • Conducting case research
  • Defining cases
  • Contents note continued: The purposes of case research
  • The case as process
  • Issues in case study research
  • The role of the case researcher
  • Conclusion
  • 7.Building on Case Analysis
  • Meta-analysis
  • Boolean algebra and cumulation
  • Conclusion
  • 8.Events Data and Change Over Time
  • Events data
  • The method
  • Relationships with other methods
  • Potential problems
  • Conclusion
  • 9.Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical modes of explanation in comparative politics
  • The question of time
  • The problem of context
  • Coping with a small N
  • Secondary analysis
  • Conclusion
  • 10.The Future of Comparative Politics
  • Territory or function: choices in comparison
  • Theory and the restriction of perspective
  • Methods and the restriction of vision
  • The exceptional and the ordinary: what can we learn from each?
  • Modesty, but hope
  • The future of comparative politics.

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