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Vergleichende Fallanalysen

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Vergleichende Fallstudiendesigns gehören einerseits zu den populärsten Designs in der Politikwissenschaft (vgl. Munck/Snyder 2007), waren andererseits in der Vergangenheit aber auch häufig Gegenstand massiver methodischer Kritik. Eine der älteren Kritiken stammt von (1971: 685), der experimentelle und statistische Untersuchungen als methodologisch weniger problematisch einstuft als vergleichende Fallstudien. (1991) spricht den klassischen Designs mit kleiner Fallzahl praktisch jeglichen methodischen Nutzen ab, weil sie auf einigen fraglichen Annahmen über die zugrunde liegenden kausalen Prozesse basierten. Als Reaktion auf diese und andere Kritiken, die vor allem in den 1990ern von Seiten quantitativer Wissenschaftler geäußert wurden (z.B. Goldthorpe 1997b; King/Keohane/Verba 1994), hat es eine Reihe von Entgegnungen qualitativer Forscher gegeben, die auf die Verteidigung und Weiterentwicklung der Methodologie vergleichender Fallstudiendesigns abzielen (z.B. George/Bennett 2005; Mahoney 1999).

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Rohlfing, I. (2009). Vergleichende Fallanalysen. In: Pickel, S., Pickel, G., Lauth, HJ., Jahn, D. (eds) Methoden der vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91826-6_7

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