Case Study Research: Principles and Practices

Hardback

Main Details

Title Case Study Research: Principles and Practices
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Gerring
SeriesStrategies for Social Inquiry
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:362
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 182
ISBN/Barcode 9781107181267
ClassificationsDewey:300.722
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Edition 2nd Revised edition
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 35 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 5 January 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Case Study Research: Principles and Practices provides a general understanding of the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools are applicable in a variety of fields including anthropology, business and management, communications, economics, education, medicine, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology. Topics include: a survey of case study approaches; a methodologically tractable definition of 'case study'; strategies for case selection, including random sampling and other algorithmic approaches; quantitative and qualitative modes of case study analysis; and problems of internal and external validity. The second edition of this core textbook is designed to be accessible to readers who are new to the subject and is thoroughly revised and updated, incorporating recent research, numerous up-to-date studies and comprehensive lecture slides.

Author Biography

John Gerring is Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996 (Cambridge, 1998), A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance (Cambridge, 2008), Concepts and Method: Giovanni Sartori and his Legacy (with David Collier, 2009), Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2012), and Applied Social Science Methodology (with Dino Christenson, Cambridge, forthcoming), along with numerous articles.