A question of size? A heuristics for stepwise comparative research design

Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis: Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 43-66

  Levi Faur, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84892317635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28829-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

References (2)

1. Cf. "If the monographic literature provides us with few generalizations, the second kind of literature (i.e., variable-oriented literature) provides us with many generalizations that do not seem to fit many or any of the relevant cases" (p. 113).
2. "A disciplined configurative approach is, thus, based on general rules, hut on complicated combinations of them. Explanations may be tailored to the specific case, but they must be made of the same material and follow the same rules of tailoring. All this is easier said than done" (Verba 1967:115).