Analytic Induction For Social Research Av Charles C. Ragin

<p>The updated <strong>Third Edition</strong> of this innovative text shows the unity within the diversity of activities called social research to help students understand how all social researchers construct representations of social...

Offers a critique of the standard approach to social research - namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing theories. This book proposes the use of set-theoretic methods to find a middle path between quantitative...

In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety...