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List of Figures and Tables | p. xi |
Preface to the Second Edition | p. xiii |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xv |
Introduction to the Second Edition: A Sea Change in Political Methodology | p. 1 |
A Debate on Methodology | p. 11 |
Framing the Debate | p. 13 |
Refocusing the Discussion of Methodology | p. 15 |
The Quest for Standards: King, Keohane, and Verba's Designing Social Inquiry | p. 33 |
Critiques of the Quantitative Template | p. 65 |
Doing Good and Doing Better: How Far Does the Quantitative Template Get Us? | p. 67 |
Some Unfulfilled Promises of Quantitative Imperialism | p. 83 |
How Inference in the Social (but Not the Physical) Sciences Neglects Theoretical Anomaly | p. 89 |
Linking the Quantitative and Qualitative Traditions | p. 99 |
Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide | p. 101 |
The Importance of Research Design | p. 111 |
Diverse Tools, Shared Standards | p. 123 |
Critiques, Responses, and Trade-Offs: Drawing Together the Debate | p. 135 |
Sources of Leverage in Causal Inference: Toward an Alternative View of Methodology | p. 161 |
Causal Inference: Old Dilemmas, New Tools | p. 201 |
Introduction to Part II | |
Qualitative Tools for Causal Inference | p. 205 |
Process Tracing and Causal Inference | p. 207 |
On Types of Scientific Inquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning | p. 221 |
Data-Set Observations versus Causal-Process Observations: The 2000 U.S. Presidential Election | p. 237 |
Addendum: Teaching Process Tracing | p. 243 |
Quantitative Tools for Causal Inference | p. 245 |
Regression-Based Inference: A Case Study in Failed Causal Assessment | p. 247 |
Design-Based Inference: Beyond the Pitfalls of Regression Analysis? | p. 273 |
Glossary | p. 313 |
Bibliography | p. 361 |
Acknowledgment of Permission to Reprint Copyrighted Material | p. 387 |
Subject Index | p. 389 |
Name Index | p. 397 |
About the Contributors | p. 405 |
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