‘This book provides a fresh and stimulating approach to causal analysis in the social sciences. International experts provide not just the philosophical arguments for a case-based approach to research but also detailed chapters on: ‘why-to’, ‘when-to’ and ‘how-to’. Traditional distinctions between qualitative and quantitative are rejected in favour of a case-based approach which is applicable across the social sciences and beyond’ - Professor Angela Dale, The University of Manchester

The Methodological Context of Case-Based Methods

This Part of the book comprises five papers that locate case-based methods in their methodological context. The first, by David Harvey, sets case-based approaches in relation to the methodological programme of the history of social science in general, but sociology in particular. Harvey's core argument is that ...

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