Innovative comparative methods for policy analysis : beyond the quantitative-qualitative divide / edited by Benoît Rihoux, Heike Grimm.

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Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0387288287
9780387288284

Subject(s):

Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology

DDC classification:

300.72 22

LOC classification:

H62 .I643 2006

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction : beyond the 'qualitative-quantitative divide : innovative comparative methods for policy analysis / Benoit Rihoux and Heike Grimm -- Ch. 2. The limitations of net-effects thinking / Charles Ragin -- Ch. 3. A question of size? : a heuristics for stepwise comparative research design / David Levi-Faur -- Ch. 4. MSDO/MDSO revisited for public policy analysis / Gisele De Meur, Peter Bursens and Alain Gottcheiner -- Ch. 5. Beyond methodological tenets : the worlds of QCA and SNA and their benefits to policy analysis / Sakura Yamasaki and Astrid Spreitzer -- Ch. 6. Entrepreneurship policy and regional economic growth : exploring the link and theoretical implications / Heike Grimm -- Ch. 7. Determining the conditions of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa : employing new tools of macro-qualitative analysis / Lasse Cronqvist and Dirk Berg-Schlosser -- Ch. 8. Diversity, ideal types and fuzzy sets in comparative welfare state research / Jon Kvist -- Ch. 9. Scenario-building methods as a tool for policy analysis / Antonio Brandao Moniz -- Ch. 10. A new method for policy evaluation? : longstanding challenges and the possibilities of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) / Frederic Varone, Benoit Rihoux and Axel Marx -- Ch. 11. Social sustainability of community structures : a systematic comparative analysis within the Oulu region in Northern Finland / Pentti Luoma -- Ch. 12. QCA as a tool for realistic evaluations : the case of the Swiss environmental impact assessment / Barbara Befani and Fritz Sager -- Ch. 13. Conclusion : innovative comparative methods for policy analysis : milestones to bridge different worlds / Benoit Rihoux and Heike Grimm.

Summary: "Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields.; ; The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in a small-N research design, with a key emphasis laid on policy-oriented applications. Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis is clearly both a social scientific and policy-driven endeavor; on the one hand, the book engages in an effort to further improve social scientific methods, but on the other hand this effort also intends to provide useful, applied tools for policy analysts and the ௬icy community࡬ike. Though quite a variety of methods and techniques are touched upon in this volume, its focus is mainly laid on two recently developed research methods/techniques which enable researchers to systematically compare a limited number of cases; Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets (FS)."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.

"Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields.; ; The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in a small-N research design, with a key emphasis laid on policy-oriented applications. Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis is clearly both a social scientific and policy-driven endeavor; on the one hand, the book engages in an effort to further improve social scientific methods, but on the other hand this effort also intends to provide useful, applied tools for policy analysts and the ௬icy community࡬ike. Though quite a variety of methods and techniques are touched upon in this volume, its focus is mainly laid on two recently developed research methods/techniques which enable researchers to systematically compare a limited number of cases; Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets (FS)."--Publisher description.

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