Duck-Rabbits in Social Analysis: A Tale of Two Cultures

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 266-277

  Elman, Colin ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eclecticism; monism; multimethod research; pluralism; process tracing; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872656759     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414012466378     Document Type: Article

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