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 Mjøset

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

Visualising 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

Gisèle De Meur and Alain Gottcheiner

The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Adding Leverage for Thick Cross-Case Comparison

Benoît 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

Seán Ó 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