Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective

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Preface 1. Introduction Donatella della Porta and Michael Keating Part I. Epistemology and Philosophy of the Social Sciences: 2. How many approaches in the social sciences? An epistemological introduction Donatella della Porta and Michael Keating 3. Normative political theory and empirical research Rainer Baubock 4. Causal explanation Adrienne Heritier 5. Constructivism: what it is (not) and how it matters Friedrich Kratochwil 6. Culture and social science Michael Keating 7. Historical institutionalism Sven Steinmo 8. Game theory Christine Chwaszcza 9. Rationality and recognition Alessandro Pizzorno Part II. Research Design: 10. Concepts and concept formation Peter Mair 11. Comparative analysis: case-oriented versus variable-oriented research Donatella della Porta 12. Case studies and process tracing: theories and practices Pascal Vennesson 13. Quantitative analysis Mark Franklin 14. The design of social and political research Philippe Schmitter 15. Ethnographic approaches Zoe Bray 16. Comparing approaches, methodologies and methods. Some concluding remarks Donatella della Porta and Michael Keating References Glossary Index.

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