After KKV
The New Methodology of Qualitative Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6410461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Mahoney (0000-0002-4913-4435, Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120-147 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0043887109990220 |
| OpenAlex | W2142758169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 184 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article discusses developments in the field of qualitative methodology since the publication of King, Keohane, and Verba's (KKV's) Designing Social Inquiry. Three areas of the new methodology are examined: (1) process tracing and causal-process observations; (2) methods using set theory and logic; and (3) strategies for combining qualitative and quantitative research. In each of these areas, the article argues, the new literature encompasses KKV's helpful insights while avoiding their most obvious missteps. Discussion focuses especially on contrasts between the kind of observations that are used in qualitative versus quantitative research, differences between regression-oriented approaches and those based on set theory and logic, and new approaches for bringing out complementarities between qualitative and quantitative research. The article concludes by discussing research frontiers in the field of qualitative methodology
Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Management science · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Process tracing · Qualitative research · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Mathematics · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Process Tracing
Free Traders
Incredible Commitments
Making Constitutions
When Movements Become Parties
What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring
Liberalization by Exhaustion
Politics of delegated governance
Within-case approaches in cross-sectoral policy analysis
Managing Import Dependency Risks in Contexts of Polycrises
Unpacking Foreign Policy Capacity of Political Parties
Theory before method
Defending Civic Space
Drilling Deeper
Property, Predation, and Protection
Social Concertation in Times of Austerity
Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
China's Gilded Age
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints
Managing Uncertainty in Crisis
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R
A Tale of Two Cultures
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences
Industrial policy for skills
Process Tracing and the Problem of Evaluating Causal Relationships Within a Case
Desafios ontológicos e epistemológicos para os métodos mistos na ciência política
Delegation, Agenda Control, and Budget Reform in Brazil, 1999–2008
Ideology, Expertise, and Industrial Transformations with Mutual Gains
Pesquisa qualitativa em debate
Bundling up actions to electrify
Transformations de l'engagement civique et nouvel art américain de la guerre
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy
Militarization, factionalism and political transitions
Approaches to Qualitative Comparative Analysis and good practices
What Can Causal Process Tracing Offer to Policy Studies? A Review of the Literature
Catching up with the European Union’s recovery and resilience agenda
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies
When do ethnic majorities share power? The politics of de-majoritarian constitutional reforms in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
The irony of Indonesia's democracy
The Strategic Logic of Large Militant Alliance Networks
How do researchers choose their goals of inference? A survey experiment on the effects of the state of research and method preferences on the choice between research goals
The political value of cultural capital
Mutual misunderstanding and avoidance, misrepresentations and disciplinary politics
Advancing the research agenda on food systems governance and transformation
Between regional cooperation and strategic reorganization
Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia
Issue Framing and Institutional Constraints in EU Agenda-Setting
Conflict Over the Commons
Why do ethnopolitical organisations turn to crime
Tracing the Progress of Process Tracing
Norwegian Political Science in Norway and Abroad
Studying Preference Attainment Using Spatial Models
Introduction
Case Selection and the Comparative Method
Elections, coalitions, and the politics of Brazil's macroeconomic stabilization
London's deportation apparatus
Can We Generalize from Case Studies
Advancing Comparative Climate Change Politics
Process Tracing in the Study of Environmental Politics
Gatekeeper persuasion and issue adoption
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on global policies on sustainable consumption and production
Governing contingencies by proxy
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together
Induction and Deduction in International Relations
Parliamentary peace or partisan politics? Democracies’ participation in the Iraq War
Description as the basis for conceptualization and inquiry
Building an authoritarian regime
Legalization in context
Single case studies and theory-testing
Process tracing and the causal identification revolution
Between X and Y
Large Banks, Market-based Banking, and the Financialisation of Danish Mortgage Markets
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies
Between substantive and symbolic influence
Constructing the ‘liberal’ Muslim other
Conceptualizing Legal Mobilization
Compliance
Urban transformation through national innovation competitions
Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies
Nonprofit ‐ Led Neoliberal Growth Machines and the Privatization of Community Engagement
Knowing Like a Movement
I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution
Going Where the Money Is
Opening the Black Box of Carbon Finance “Additionality”
Case Studies and EU Politics
War under transnational surveillance
The Long and Short of It
Nationalism, Collaboration, and Resistance
The digital governance puzzle
Content with Failure? Cultural Consolidation and the Absence of Nationalist Mobilization in the Case of the Occitans in France
A State‐centred Explanation of the Finance‐Pension Nexus
Between crisis and reform
The technocratic barrier to wage policy
The Pyschoactive Politics Framework and the Beginning of Coca Eradication in Peru
The politics of Japan’s immigration and alien residence control
Defence Innovation and Women’s Participation in the Armed Forces
Causal inference and American political development
The inferential opportunity of specificity
Generalization by Mechanism
Fuzzy-Set Social Science
Statistics and Causal Inference
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism
Shaping the Political Arena
Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations
Interpretation and Method
The Comparative Method
The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology
Configurational Comparative Methods
A Comparative Method
Assessing the Trivialness, Relevance, and Relative Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Social Science
Two cheers for Charles Ragin
Qualitative comparative analysis vis-à-vis regression
A Simple Multivariate Test for Asymmetric Hypotheses
Toward a Pluralistic Vision of Methodology
Stirring the Frequentist Pot with a Dash of Bayes
Is Causal-Process Observation an Oxymoron
Explanatory Typologies in Qualitative Studies of International Politics
Toward a Unified Theory of Causality
What You See and What You Get
Consequences of Positivism
The Logic of Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences
The Methodology of Necessary Conditions
Democracy with Adjectives
III. "Degrees of Freedom" and the Case Study
States and Social Revolutions
Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research
States and Social Revolutions
| Unique citing works | 184 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 184 |