3. Comparative Research Methods

IF 2 2区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2020-04-29 DOI:10.1093/hepl/9780198820604.003.0003

P. Pennings, H. Keman

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This chapter examines the ‘art of comparing’ by showing how to relate a theoretically guided research question to a properly founded research answer by developing an adequate research design. It first considers the role of variables in comparative research, before discussing the meaning of ‘cases’ and case selection. It then looks at the ‘core’ of the comparative research method: the use of the logic of comparative inquiry to analyse the relationships between variables (representing theory), and the information contained in the cases (the data). Two logics are distinguished: Method of Difference and Method of Agreement. The chapter concludes with an assessment of some problems common to the use of comparative methods.

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3.比较研究方法

本章探讨了“比较艺术”，展示了如何通过制定适当的研究设计，将理论指导的研究问题与有根据的研究答案联系起来。它首先考虑了变量在比较研究中的作用，然后讨论了“案例”和案例选择的含义。然后，它着眼于比较研究方法的“核心”：使用比较探究的逻辑来分析变量（代表理论）和案例中包含的信息（数据）之间的关系。区分了两种逻辑：差异法和一致法。本章最后对使用比较方法的一些常见问题进行了评估。

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Comparative Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

4.30%

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