The Value of a Realist Understanding of Causality for Qualitative Research

Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 163-181

  Maxwell, Joseph A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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