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Introduction to the Special Issue “Causal Complexity and Qualitative Methods”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Gary Goertz*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. e-mail: ggoertz@u.arizona.edu

Extract

This special issue of Political Analysis engages in a dialogue between qualitative and quantitative methods. It proposes that each has something to say to the other and more generally has a contribution to make to empirical social science.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology 

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