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Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis

Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide

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Editors:
  1. Benoît Rihoux

    1. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

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  2. Heike Grimm

    1. University of Erfurt and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany

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  • 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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Benoît Rihoux, Heike Grimm
      Pages 1-9

  3. Systematic Comparative Case Studies: Design, Methods and Measures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Limitations of Net-Effects Thinking

      • Charles C. Ragin
      Pages 13-41

    3. A Question of Size?

      • David Levi-Faur
      Pages 43-66

    4. MSDO/MDSO Revisited for Public Policy Analysis

      • Gisèle De Meur, Peter Bursens, Alain Gottcheiner
      Pages 67-94

    5. Beyond Methodological Tenets

      • Sakura Yamasaki, Astrid Spreitzer
      Pages 95-120

  4. Innovative Comparative Methods to Analyze Policy-Making Processes: Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Entrepreneurship Policy and Regional Economic Growth

      • Heike Grimm
      Pages 123-144

    3. Determining the Conditions of HIV/AIDS Prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Lasse Cronqvist, Dirk Berg-Schlosser
      Pages 145-166

    4. Diversity, Ideal Types and Fuzzy Sets in Comparative Welfare State Research

      • Jon Kvist
      Pages 167-184

    5. Scenario-Building Methods as a Tool for Policy Analysis

      • António Brandão Moniz
      Pages 185-209

  5. Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Implementation and Evaluation: Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. A New Method for Policy Evaluation?

      • Frédéric Varone, Benoît Rihoux, Axel Marx
      Pages 213-236

    3. Social Sustainability of Community Structures: A Systematic Comparative Analysis within the Oulu Region in Northern Finland

      • Pentti Luoma
      Pages 237-262

    4. QCA as a Tool for Realistic Evaluations

      • Barbara Befani, Fritz Sager
      Pages 263-284

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285
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    2. Conclusion

      • Benoît Rihoux, Heike Grimm
      Pages 287-296

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 297-344
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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).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

    Benoît Rihoux

  • University of Erfurt and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany

    Heike Grimm

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

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