The essays in this volume are intended to help social scientists do better comparative research and thereby to improve our possibilities for creating more satis
Even after teaching generations of social scientists, Neil Smelser's classic book remains the most definitive statement of methodological issues for all compara
This cutting-edge book facilitates debate amongst scholars in law, humanities and social sciences, where comparative methodology is far less well anchored in mo
Charles C. Ragin’s The Comparative Method proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both quali