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Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis

Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide

By: Heike Grimm (Editor), Benoit Rihoux (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 November 2005

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Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields.

The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in a small-N research design, with a key emphasis laid on policy-oriented applications. Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis is clearly both a social scientific and policy-driven endeavor; on the one hand, the book engages in an effort to further improve social scientific methods, but on the other hand this effort also intends to provide useful, applied tools for policy analysts and the "policy community" alike. Though quite a variety of methods and techniques are touched upon in this volume, its focus is mainly laid on two recently developed research methods/techniques which enable researchers to systematically compare a limited number of cases; Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets (FS).

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Economics Economic History Business & Management Management & Management Techniques Economic Theory & Philosophy

Introduction : beyond the 'qualitative-quantitative divide : innovative comparative methods for policy analysis	p. 1
The limitations of net-effects thinking	p. 13
A question of size? : a heuristics for stepwise comparative research design	p. 43
MSDO/MDSO revisited for public policy analysis	p. 67
Beyond methodological tenets : the worlds of QCA and SNA and their benefits to policy analysis	p. 95
Entrepreneurship policy and regional economic growth : exploring the link and theoretical implications	p. 123
Determining the conditions of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa : employing new tools of macro-qualitative analysis	p. 145
Diversity, ideal types and fuzzy sets in comparative welfare state research	p. 167
Scenario-building methods as a tool for policy analysis	p. 185
A new method for policy evaluation? : longstanding challenges and the possibilities of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)	p. 213
Social sustainability of community structures : a systematic comparative analysis within the Oulu region in Northern Finland	p. 237
QCA as a tool for realistic evaluations : the case of the Swiss environmental impact assessment	p. 263
Conclusion : innovative comparative methods for policy analysis : milestones to bridge different worlds	p. 287
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