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Stanley Lieberson, “Small N’s and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases,” Social Forces, Volume 70, Number 2 (December 1991), 307-320. Douglas, Dion, “Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study,” Comparative Politics, 30, 2 (January 1998), pp. 127-145. Structured, Focused comparison: Alexander George and Andrew Bennett, “The Method of Structured, Focused Comparison,” in Alexander George and Andrew Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004, pp. 67-73. Recommended: Andrew Bennett. 2008. “Process Tracing: A Bayesian Perspective.” Chapter 30 in, The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady, and David Collier (eds.). Oxford University Press. Jeffrey M. Paige. 1999. "Conjunction, Comparison, and Conditional Theory in Macrosocial Inquiry." American Journal of Sociology. 105 (November): 781-800. [section on Kimeldorf and historically conditional theorizing, pp. 786-789 only] Ann Chih Lin. 1998. “Bridging Positivist and Interpretivist Approaches to Qualitative Methods.” Policy Studies Journal 26:162–80. [searching for mechanisms] Mario Small. 2009. "'How many cases do I need?' On science and the logic of case selection in research." Ethnography 10,1: 5-38 Peter Abell. 2001. “Causality and Low-Frequency Complex Events. The Role of Comparative Narratives.” Sociological Methods and Research. 30(1):57-80. Robin Stryker. 1996. “Beyond History Versus Theory: Strategic Narrative and Sociological Explanation.” Sociological Methods and Research. 24:304-352. Rebecca Jean Emigh. 1997. “The Power of Negative Thinking: The Use of Negative Case Methodology in the Development of Sociological Theory.” Theory and Society 26:649-84. [discusses the critique of 1980s comparative studies] Qualitative Comparative Analysis recommended: Charles The Comparative Method. Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987), pp.1-102.
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