Configurational Comparative Methods paves the way for an innovative approach to empirical scientific work through a strategy that integrates key strengths of both qualitative (case-oriented) and quantitative (variable-oriented) approaches. This first-of-its-kind text is ideally suited for "small-N" or "intermediate-N" research situations, which both mainstream qualitative and q...(展开全部)

This bright, engaging title provides a thorough and integrated review of comparative-historical methods. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative-historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including: - Comparative-historical analysis, - Case-based methods, - Comparative methods - Data, case selection & theory. Matthew ...(展开全部)

This bright, engaging title provides a thorough and integrated review of comparative-historical methods. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative-historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including: - Comparative-historical analysis, - Case-based methods, - Comparative methods - Data, case selection & theory. Matthew ...(展开全部)

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social science fields, statements about social phenomena can be framed in terms of set relations, and using set-theoretic methods to investigate these statements is t...(展开全部)

Carsten Q. Schneider is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies at Central European University, Hungary. Claudius Wagemann is Lecturer in the Doctoral Program in Political Science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), Florence.

尼尔·丁·斯梅尔塞(1930～ ),美国社会学家:本书是作者研究社会科学方法论问题的一部力作,对战后在西方社会科学领域,发展起来的一系列比较方法进行系统分析,追溯它们来龙去脉,评判它们的是非功过;而且对这些方法的理论基础、实用价值以及未来发展方法,都作了深刻阐述。

尼尔·丁·斯梅尔塞(1930～ ),美国社会学家:本书是作者研究社会科学方法论问题的一部力作,对战后在西方社会科学领域,发展起来的一系列比较方法进行系统分析,追溯它们来龙去脉,评判它们的是非功过;而且对这些方法的理论基础、实用价值以及未来发展方法,都作了深刻阐述。

Against the backdrop of an explosion of interest in new techniques for data collection and theory testing, this volume provides a fresh programmatic statement about comparative-historical analysis. It examines the advances and distinctive contributions that CHA has made to theory generation and the explanation of large-scale outcomes that newer approaches often regard as empiri...(展开全部)

This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a "historical institutional" approach to the study of politics. By bringing these pieces together, the volume highlights the methodological and theoretical foundations of this approach and illustrates the general contributions it has...(展开全部)