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Outdated Views of Qualitative Methods: Time to Move On

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Both qualitative and quantitative research routinely fall short, producing misleading causal inferences. Because these weaknesses are in part different, we are convinced that multimethod strategies are productive. Each approach can provide additional leverage that helps address shortcomings of the other. This position is quite distinct from that of Beck, who believes that the two types of analysis cannot be adjoined. We review examples of adjoining that Beck dismisses, based on what we see as his outdated view of qualitative methods. By contrast, we show that these examples demonstrate how qualitative and quantitative analysis can work together.

Source: Political Analysis

DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpq022

Authors: David Collier, Henry E. Brady, Jason Seawright

Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1965083292

FWCI: 17.63

Cites: 22

Cited by: 131

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