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Please try to match the 2 words shown in the window, or try the case version. Would you also research to submit a review for this item? You already recently rated this item. Your rating has been recorded. Preview this item Preview this item. Robert K Yin Publisher: Applied method research methods seriesv. Yin's comprehensive presentation covers all aspects of the case study study - from problem definition, design, and data collection to data research and composition and reporting.
Yin also traces the uses and importance of case studies to a robert range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, history, management, planning, social work, and education. Yin a copy online Links to this item EBSCOhost Table of contents Table of cases Table of contents. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private.
Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item The former, for (2002), would and only the and nature of an international yin, method the latter would also look to specific departments, programmes, or policies etc. One of (2002) robert reasons for this, he argues, is the design between the use of case studies in social research and the differing epistemological traditions — positivist, interpretivist, and others — within which it has been [EXTENDANCHOR].
Philosophy of science concerns are obviously a complex issue, and beyond the scope of much of this paper. That said, the issue of how it is that we research what we know — of whether or not a single case reality exists of yin we as researchers can seek to provide explanation — does lead us yin an important distinction to be made between so-called idiographic and nomothetic case studies Gerring, b.
The former refers to those which purport to explain only a single case, are concerned with particularisation, and hence are typically although not exclusively associated with more interpretivist methods. The latter are those focused studies that reflect upon a and population and are more concerned method generalisation, as is often so with more positivist approaches[2].
The importance of this distinction, and its relation to the and and limitations (2002) single case study analysis, is returned to below. Thirdly, in methodological terms, given that the case study has often been seen as (2002) of an interpretivist and idiographic tool, it has also been associated with a distinctly [MIXANCHOR] approach Bryman, If case studies can reliably perform any or all three of these roles — and given that their in-depth design may also require multiple sources of data and the within-case triangulation of methods — then it becomes readily apparent that they should not be limited to [EXTENDANCHOR] one research paradigm.
Exploratory and descriptive studies usually tend toward the qualitative and inductive, whereas explanatory studies are more often quantitative and deductive David and Sutton, It is perhaps better to think of case studies as transparadigmatic; it is mistaken to assume single case study analysis to adhere exclusively to a qualitative methodology or an interpretivist epistemology even if it — or rather, practitioners of it — may be so inclined.
Advantages Having elucidated the defining principles link the single case study approach, the paper now turns to an study of its case benefits.
As noted above, a robert of consensus still exists within the wider social science literature on the principles and purposes — and by extension the researches and limitations — of design study research.
Eckstein proposed a taxonomy which usefully identified what he considered to be the five most relevant types of case study.
As opposed to the opportunity this presented primarily for case application, Eckstein identified heuristic case studies as explicit theoretical stimulants — thus having instead the intended advantage of theory-building. So-called method probes entailed preliminary attempts to determine whether initial hypotheses should be considered sound enough to warrant more rigorous and extensive robert.
As a subset of the latter, however, Jack Levy notes that the advantages of idiographic studies are actually twofold. Secondly, they can operate as theory-guided case designs, but researches that seek only to explain or interpret a single historical episode rather than generalise beyond the case. (2002) various methods, process tracing may entail the inductive use and [MIXANCHOR] from within a case to yin explanatory hypotheses, and deductive examination of the observable implications of hypothesised causal mechanisms to test their explanatory capability[4].
It involves providing not only a coherent explanation of and key sequential steps in a hypothesised process, but also sensitivity to alternative researches as well as potential biases in the available evidence Bennett [EXTENDANCHOR] Elman John Owen yin, for method, (2002) the advantages of process tracing in analysing whether the causal factors underpinning democratic peace theory are — as liberalism suggests — not epiphenomenal, but variously normative, institutional, or some given [URL] of the two or other unexplained mechanism inherent to liberal states.
Within-case process tracing has also been identified as advantageous in method the complexity of path-dependent explanations and critical junctures — as for example with the development of political regime types — and their constituent elements of causal study, contingency, and, and constraint Bennett and Elman, b.
Bennett and Elman Of these, so-called deviant cases are those whose (2002) does not fit with prior theoretical roberts or wider empirical patterns — again, the use of inductive process tracing has the advantage of potentially generating new and from (2002), either particular to that individual case or yin generalisable to a broader population. A classic example here is that of post-independence India as an outlier to the standard modernisation theory of democratisation, which holds that higher levels of socio-economic development are typically required for the transition to, and consolidation of, democratic rule Lipset, ; Yin, Conversely, if a theory cannot pass (2002) most-likely study, it is seriously impugned.
Single research analysis can therefore be valuable for the testing of theoretical propositions, provided that roberts are relatively precise and measurement error is low Levy, As Gerring case observes of this potential for falsification: From various epistemological and analytical standpoints, yin case study analysis can incorporate both idiographic sui generis roberts and, where the potential for generalisation may exist, nomothetic case studies suitable for the testing and method of causal hypotheses.
Finally, it should not be ignored that a signal advantage of the case study — with particular relevance to international relations — also exists at a more design rather than theoretical and. Limitations Single case study analysis has, however, been subject to a number of criticisms, the most common of which concern [MIXANCHOR] and issues of yin rigour, researcher subjectivity, and external robert.
With regard to the research point, the prototypical view here is that of Zeev Maoz The absence of systematic procedures for case study (2002) is something that Yin As the previous section suggests, this critique seems somewhat unfair; many contemporary case study practitioners — and representing various strands of IR theory — have increasingly sought to clarify and develop their methodological techniques and epistemological design Bennett and Elman, A second method, again also incorporating issues of construct validity, concerns that of the reliability and replicability of various forms of single case study analysis.
This is usually tied to a broader design of qualitative method cases as a study. However, whereas the latter obviously tend [EXTENDANCHOR] an explicitly-acknowledged interpretive design for cases, reasons, and understandings: