The promising integration of qualitative methods and field experiments

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 628, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-71

  Paluck, Elizabeth Levy ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival methods; Experimental ethnography; Field experimentation; Interpretive methods; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649255156     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716209351510     Document Type: Article

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