| ID | 136454 |
| Title Proper | Active citation |
| Other Title Information | in search of smoking guns or meaningful context? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Snyder, Jack |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Andrew Moravcsik makes a persuasive case that rigorously executed qualitative methods have a distinctive and indispensable role to play in research on international relations. Qualitative case studies facilitate the tracing of causal processes, provide insight into actors’ understanding of their own motives and assumptions, and establish an interpretive or systemic context that makes unified sense of discrete events. Teamed up with quantitative methods, qualitative methods can check on the presence of hypothesized causal mechanisms that might be difficult to measure in numerical shorthand. |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Studies Vol.23, No.4; Oct-Dec.2014: p.708-714 |
| Journal Source | Security Studies Vol: 23 No 4 |
| Standard Number | International Relations – IR |