The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods

INTRODUCTION: Case-Based Methods: Why We Need Them What They Are How to Do Them – David Byrne 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 Uprichard Visualizing Types: The Potential of Correspondence Analysis – Dianne Phillips and John Phillips How Classification Works, Or Doesn’t: The Case of Chronic Pain – Emma Whelan Quantitative Approaches to Case Based Methods Case-Centred Methods and Quantitative Analysis – Ray Kent The 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 Breiger Using 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 Locock Working 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-Oriented Research – Charles C Ragin