Books
Donnelly, Marc and Claire Norton (2011) Doing History. Routledge. Ch. 2-6. (114p)
King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba (1994) Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton University Press. Ch. 1-5. (205p)
Trachtenberg, Marc (2006) The Craft of International History. A Guide to Method. Princeton University Press. Ch. 1-5. (168p.)
Downloadable articles, book chapters, and other texts made available through Canvas
AHR (2006), AHR conversation on transnational history, American Historical Review 12: 1441-1464. (23p)
Bryman, Alan (2016) Social Research Methods. 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 2: “Social research strategies: quantitative and qualitative research”, pp. 16-38; ch. 27: “Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research”, pp. 634-660. (50p)
Charmaz, Kathy (2003) “Qualitative interviewing and grounded theory analysis”, pp. 311-330 in James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gudrium (eds.) Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns. London: Sage. (20p)
Clavin Patricia (2005) “Defining transnationalism”, Contemporary European History 14: 421-439. (18p)
Collier, David, and James Mahoney (1996). “Insights and pitfalls: selection bias in qualitative research”, World Politics 49:1: 56–91. (36p)
Fujii, Lee Ann (2010) “Shades of truth and lies: interpreting testimonies of war and violence”, Journal of Peace Research 47, 2: 231-241. (11p)
Gaskarth, Jamie (2006) “Discourses and ethics: the social construction of British foreign policy”, Foreign Policy Analysis 2: 325-341. (17p)
Gerring, John (2017) Case Study Research. Principles and Practices (2nd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 11: “Tradeoffs”, pp. 243-273. (31p)
Gerring, John (2007) Case Study Research. Principles and Practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 6: “Internal validity: an experimental template”, pp. 151-171. (21p)
Hopf, Ted (2002) Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Ch. 1. (38p)
Levy, Jack S. (2008) “Case studies: types, designs, and logic of inference”, Conflict Management and Peace Science 25: 1-18. (18p)
Mahoney, James (2012): “The logic of process tracing tests in the social sciences”, Sociological Methods & Research 41(4): 570-597. (28p)
Mahoney, James and Gary Goertz (2006) “A tale of two cultures: contrasting quantitative and qualitative research”, Political Analysis 14, 3: 227-249. (23p)
Megoran, Nick (2006) “For ethnography in political geography: experiencing and re-imagining Ferghana Valley boundary closures”, Political Geography 25: 622-640. (19p)
Maynard, Jonathan L. (2013) “A map of the field of ideological analysis”, Journal of Political Ideologies 18, 3: 299-327. (29p)
Rauh, Christian (2015) “Communicating supranational governance? The salience of EU affairs in the German Bundestag, 1991-2013”, European Union Politics 16: 116-138. (23p)
Sachsenmaier, Dominic (2012) Global History, in docupedia – Zeitgeschichte. Terms, Methods and Debates in Contemporary History. http://docupedia.de/zg/Global_History (11p)
Seawright, Jason and John Gerring (2008) “Case selection techniques in case study research: a menu of qualitative and quantitative options”, Political Research Quarterly 61, 2: 294-308. (15p)
Tarrow, Sidney (2010) “The strategy of paired comparison: toward a theory of practice”, Comparative Political Studies 43, 2: 230–259. (30p)
Wedeen, Lisa (2013) “Reflections on ethnographic fieldwork in political science”, Annual Review of Political Science 13: 255-272. (18p)
Total: 968 pages
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