Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared StandardsHenry E. Brady, David Collier Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 16 sept. 2010 - 428 pages With innovative new chapters on process tracing, regression analysis, and natural experiments, the second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry further extends the reach of this path-breaking book. The original debate with King, Keohane, and Verba_now updated_remains central to the volume, and the new material illuminates evolving discussions of essential methodological tools. Thus, process tracing is often invoked as fundamental to qualitative analysis, but is rarely applied with precision. Pitfalls of regression analysis are sometimes noted, but often are inadequately examined. And the complex assumptions and trade-offs of natural experiments are poorly understood. The second edition extends the methodological horizon through exploring these critical tools. A distinctive feature of this edition is the online placement of four chapters from the prior edition, all focused on the dialogue with King, Keohane, and Verba. |
Table des matières
| 1 | |
A DEBATE ON METHODOLOGY | 11 |
Refocusing the Discussion of Methodology | 15 |
The Quest for Standards | 33 |
B CRITIQUES OF THE QUANTITATIVE TEMPLATE | 65 |
3 Doing Good and Doing Better | 67 |
4 Some Unfulfilled Promises of Quantitative Imperialism | 83 |
5 How Inference in the Socialbut Not the Physical Sciences | 89 |
9 Sources of Leverage in Causal Inference | 161 |
CAUSAL INFERENCE | 201 |
E QUALITATIVE TOOLS FORCAUSAL INFERENCE | 205 |
10 Process Tracing and Causal Inference | 207 |
11 On Types of Scientific Inquiry | 221 |
12 DataSet Observations versus CausalProcess Observations | 237 |
Teaching Process Tracing | 243 |
F QUANTITATIVE TOOLSFOR CAUSAL INFERENCE | 245 |
C LINKING THEQUANTITATIVE ANDQUALITATIVE TRADITIONS | 99 |
6 Bridging the QuantitativeQualitative Divide | 101 |
7 The Importance of Research Design | 111 |
D DIVERSE TOOLSSHARED STANDARDS | 122 |
Drawing Together the Debate | 125 |
13 RegressionBased Inference | 247 |
14 DesignBased Inference | 272 |
Bibliography | 361 |
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