Collecting data from elites and ultra elites: Telephone and face-to-face interviews with macroeconomists

Qualitative Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-216

  Stephens, Neil ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elites; Qualitative methods; Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; Telephone and face to face interviewing; Young researcher

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147111274     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794107076020     Document Type: Article

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