Negative Case Selection: Justifications and Consequences for Set-Theoretic MMR

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 739-771

  Mikkelsen, Kim Sass ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

case selection; multi method research; negative cases; process tracing; qualitative comparative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032364803     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124115591015     Document Type: Article

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