It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in one volume.

Comparative and Cross-National Designs

David deVaus

It can be argued that virtually all social research is comparative in that descriptions and explanations are derived from comparisons of groups, cases, periods or some other unit of analysis (Przeworski and Teune 1966). This chapter focuses on one type of comparative research – that which is based on ...

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