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III. “Degrees of Freedom” and the Case Study:
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This article is published in Comparative Political Studies.The article was published on 1975-07-01. It has received 970 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Degrees of freedom.read more
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Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
TL;DR: The authors examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars.
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Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
TL;DR: The authors examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge, one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot contribute to scientific development, the case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, whereas other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building, case study contains a bias toward verification, and it is often difficult to summarize specific case studies.
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Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research: Notes on the Gioia Methodology
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic approach to new concept development and grounded theory articulation that is designed to bring "qualitative rigor" to the conduct and presentation of inductive research is presented.
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Understanding and Validity in Qualitative Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors rely implicitly or explicitly on a variety of understandings and corresponding types of validity in the process of describing, interpreting, and explaining phenomena of interest to them.
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What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for
TL;DR: In this article, the case study method is defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units, and it is argued that case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research.
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Childhood and Society
TL;DR: Erikson's Childhood and Society as discussed by the authors deals with the relationship between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation.
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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research
TL;DR: A survey drawn from social science research which deals with correlational, ex post facto, true experimental, and quasi-experimental designs and makes methodological recommendations is presented in this article.
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Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of test theory models and their application in the field of mental test analysis. But the focus of the survey is on test-score theories and models, and not the practical applications and limitations of each model studied.
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Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
TL;DR: This paper is a systematic analysis of the comparative method, and it is argued that the case study method is closely related to theComparison method.