Identifying Relevant Cases of Conversion and Drift Using the Comparative Agendas Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilana Shpaizman (0000-0002-6946-0334, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 490-509 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/psj.12150 |
| OpenAlex | W2279270783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
One of the most important phases of case‐oriented research is identifying the relevant population of cases. The best practice scheme suggests first identifying the positive and then the negative cases, based on the assumption that the population is small and known. This scheme is inapplicable when the population is unknown, as is the case with many public administration and public policy outcomes, which are often less visible. However, most research either ignores this difficulty or recommends a single case study. This article suggests that when the population is unknown scholars can apply the possibility principle to identify the relevant population of cases. In order to do so, a large dataset is required. In policy studies, the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) can serve this aim. This article highlights CAP's applicability for case selection based on the possibility principle in two less visible policy outcomes: conversion and drift. In that, it not only addresses an overlooked challenge but also promotes both CAP as a useful tool for qualitative researchers and the expansion of comparative work on conversion and drift
Case selection · Comparative case · Economics · Management science · Order (exchange · Political science · Population · Public economics · Public relations · Scheme (mathematics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · Medicine · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Artificial Intelligence
What Is a Case?
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
Process-Tracing Methods
Rethinking Social Inquiry
Drift and conversion
Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis
How Institutions Evolve
A Tale of Two Cultures
Designing Case Studies
The policy agendas project
What Can Causal Process Tracing Offer to Policy Studies? A Review of the Literature
Continental Drift
Ideas and Institutional Change in Social Security
Agenda‐building and the Politics of Aging
The Comparative Policy Agendas Projects as measurement systems
Acting When Elected Officials Won't
A short history of studying incremental institutional change
Courts and the Puzzle of Institutional Stability and Change
Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research
From metaphors to measures
Organizational Reputations and the Observability of Public Warnings in 10 Pharmaceutical Markets
What You See and What You Get
Social Science Concepts
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
Crippled Justice
The Possibility Principle
Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State
Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research
Winner-Take-All Politics
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |