Summary
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Offering students and researchers in the behavioural and social sciences a brief and accessible introduction to the comparative method, it is ideal for students of public administration, policy, sociology, political science, social psychology, and international relations. It provides readers with basic guidelines for comparative research by addressing all key methodological issues.
Causation
Causation
Causes and Effects
This chapter deals with the explanatory purposes of the comparative method and the question of how to accept or reject hypotheses about causal relationships between variables, that is, how to test their empirical validity.
Methods of Inductive Inference
Causal relationships are the most interesting aspect of empirical ...
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