The SAGE handbook of case-based methods / edited by David Byrne , Charles c. Ragin

PART ONE: THE METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF CASE-BASED METHODS Complexity and Case - David L Harvey The Contextualist Approach to Social Science Methodology - Lars Mjoset Reflexivity, Realism and the Process of Casing - Bob Carter and Alison Sealey Single-Case Probabilities - Malcolm Williams and Wendy Dyer Complex Realist and Configurational Approaches to Cases: A Radical Synthesis - David Byrne PART TWO: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF CASE-BASED RESEARCH Typologies - Ways of Sorting Things Out Explanatory Typologies in Qualitative Analysis - Colin Elman Introducing Cluster Analysis: What Can It Teach Us about the Case? - Emma UprichardVisualizing Types: The Potential of Correspondence Analysis - Dianne Phillips and John PhillipsHow Classification Works, Or Doesn't: The Case of Chronic Pain - Emma Whelan Quantitative Approaches to Case Based MethodsCase-Centred Methods and Quantitative Analysis - Ray KentThe Logic and Assumptions of MDSO - MSDO Designs - Gisele De Meur and Alain Gottcheiner The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Adding Leverage for Thick Cross-Case Comparison - Benoit Rihoux and Bojana Lobe On the Duality of Cases and Variables: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) - Ronald L BreigerUsing Cluster Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis and NVivo in Relation to the Establishment of Causal Configurations with Pre-existing Large N Datasets: Machining Hermeneutics - David Byrne Qualitative Approaches to Case-Based Research Computer-Based Qualitative Methods in Case-Study Research - Nigel Fielding and Richard Warnes Extending the Ethnographic Case Study - Sean O Riain Scope in Case-Study Research - Gary Goertz and James Mahoney Small-N Access Cases to Refine Theories of Social Exclusion and Access to Socially Excluded Individuals and Groups - Nick Emmel and Kahryn Hughes Using Comparative Data: A Systems Approach to a Multiple Case Study - Fred Carden PART THREE: CASE-BASED METHODS IN DISCIPLINES AND FIELDS Making the Most of an Historical Case Study: Configuration, Sequence, Casing, and the US Old-Age Pension Movement - Edwin Amenta Poetry and History: The Case for Literary Evidence - John Walton Social Interactions and the Demand for Sport: Cluster Analysis in Economics - Paul Downward and Joseph Riordan The Proper Relationship of Comparative-Historical Analysis to Statistical Analysis: Subordination, Integration or Separation? - James Mahoney and P Larkin Terrie Case Studies and the Configurational Analysis of Organizational Phenomena - Peer C Fiss The Case in Medicine - Frances Griffiths Team-Based Aggregation of Qualitative Case Study Data in Health Care Contexts: Challenges and Learning - Sue Dopson, Ewan Ferlie, Louise Fitzgerald and Louise LocockWorking with Cases in Development Contexts: Some Insights from an Outlier - Pip Bevan Non-Nested and Nested Cases in a Socioeconomic Village Study - Wendy Olsen Causality and Interpretation in Qualitative Policy-Related Research - David Byrne, Wendy Olsen and Sandra Duggan Reflections on Casing and Case