Small N's and Big Conclusions
An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2556979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley Lieberson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2580241 |
| OpenAlex | W4239540912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 77 |
Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA
Temporality, vulnerability, and energy justice in household low carbon innovations
Mehr oder weniger? Quantitativer versus qualitativer Vergleich
The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe
The Great Divides
On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition
Extreme heat adaptation planning
A regularity theory of causality for the social sciences
Academic Advisors and Bureaucrats in the Policy Process
From energy islands to energy highlands? Political barriers to sustainability transitions in the Baltic region
Promoting novelty, rigor, and style in energy social science
When do ethnic majorities share power? The politics of de-majoritarian constitutional reforms in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
The Importance of National Ethos in Military Victories
East Asian wisdom and relativity
Interrogating the conditions for political collaboration between the state and the medical profession
Comparative communication studies within and beyond Great China
International terrorism, domestic coverage? How terrorist attacks are presented in the news of CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and ARD
Political Marketing Matters
Civilization in Color
The Electoral Connection Revisited
How institutional contexts shape police-adolescent encounters. A study of France and Germany
Political Science/Political Theory
Area Studies/Asian Studies
Anthropology
Philosophy and Critical Realism
Philosophy and Standpoint Theory
After Positivism
Sociology
Sociology and Economics
Comparative Assessments of Indian Democracy
On the Applicability of the Most Similar Systems Design and the Most Different Systems Design in Comparative Research
Los métodos mixtos
Política do corpo e política de vida
Of What is This a Case
Gütekriterien in der Soziologie
The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector
How the cases you choose affect the answers you get, revisited
Research By Us, For Us
Crises and Negotiations in Mutual Interventions
Multi-Method Research in the Social Sciences
Transitions to democracy, institutional choices and party system stability
Ministering at the Altar of Slavery”
Social expenditure, social rights, and benefit receipt as indicators of welfare state generosity
Policy experts and bureaucrats in the policy process
The Effects of Children’s Migration on Elderly Kin’s Health
Distributional coalitions, state strength, and economic growth
Ontology, Epistemology, and Multimethod Research in Political Science
Almost Pregnant
Frontier Land Use Change
Civic Associations and Authoritarian Regimes in Interwar Europe
The Great Failure
Democratic Trajectories in the Third Wave
Revolution, war, and security
Ethnography's Expanding Warrants
Social epidemiology of a large outbreak of chickenpox in the Colombian sugar cane producer region
Theorizing with Archives
More or Less Educational Homogamy? A Test of Different Versions of Modernization Theory Using Cross-Temporal Evidence for 60 Countries
Introduction
Razões emergentes para a validade dos estudos de caso na ciência política comparada
Max Weber, as múltiplas modernidades e a reorientação da teoria sociológica
A filiação sindical no Brasil
Two Peas in a Pod," "Apples and Oranges," and Other Food Metaphors
Black Caribbeans in comparative perspective
What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for
Varieties of Expression in the New International Comparative Political Economy
Management Citizenship Behavior
On Sociological Reflexivity
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction
Taking Causal Heterogeneity Seriously
What Can You Do With a Single Case? How to Think About Ethnographic Case Selection Like a Historical Sociologist
Comparative-Historical Methodology
Declining Violent Crime Rates in the 1990s
Odious Comparisons
The strange career of Millian methods in comparative social science
Continuity and Change in Methodology in Social Forces
What Do Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Analytic Architectures in Historical Sociology
Nominal, Ordinal, and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis
| Unique citing works | 77 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,26 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 77 |