Overview
- Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Systematic Comparative Case Studies: Design, Methods and Measures
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Innovative Comparative Methods to Analyze Policy-Making Processes: Applications
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Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Implementation and Evaluation: Applications
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Conclusion
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About this book
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 "policy community" alike. 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).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide
Editors: Benoît Rihoux, Heike Grimm
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28829-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-28828-4Published: 17 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3956-2Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-28829-1Published: 20 March 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 344
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Business and Management, general