QUALITATIVE AND ARCHIVAL METHODS READING LIST June 3, 2016

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1 QUALITATIVE AND ARCHIVAL METHODS READING LIST June 3, 2016 PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Causation, Explanation, and Inference Almond, Gabriel and Genco, Stephen Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics. World Politics. Vol. 29 No. 4: Bhaskar, Roy, Chapters 1-3. The Possibility of Naturalism. Routledge. Brady, Henry E Causation and Explanation in Social Science. Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Elster, Jon Chapters 1,2, 16, and Conclusion. Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press. Hall, Peter Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Research, Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Hempel, Carl G The Function of General Laws in History. Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science Holland, Paul W Statistics and Causal Inference. Journal of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 81 No. 396: Hume, David Pages An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Hackett Publishing. Stinchcombe, Arthur L Chapters Theoretical Methods in Social History. Academic Press, Inc. Weber, Max Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy, The Methodology of the Social Sciences. Complex causation Bennett, Andrew and Elman, Colin. 2006a. Complex Casual Relations and Case Study Methods: the Example of Path Dependence. Political Analysis Davidson, Donald Actions, Reasons, Causes, Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford University Press. Hayek, F.A The Theory of Complex Phenomena. Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science. MIT Press. Hedström, Peter and Petri Ylikoski Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 36: Mackie, J.L Causes and Conditions. American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 2: Ragin, Charles Chapters 2, 6, 7 and 8. The Comparative Method. University of California. Weber, Max Economy and Society. University of California Press.

2 Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science, in Bryan Wilson ed. Rationality (1986), RESEARCH DESIGN Adcock, Robert and David Collier Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research. APSR. Vol. 95 No. 3: Brady, Henry, and David Collier Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Rowman & Littlefield. Collier, David and James Mahoney Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research. World Politics Dunning, Thad. Chapters 1, 7 and 8. Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach. Cambridge University Press Geddes, Barbara How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics. Political Analysis George, Alexander L and Andrew Bennett Chapters 1, 3, and 10. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. MIT. Kalyvas, Stathis Appendix A. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge University Press. Lieberson, Stanley Small N s and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases. Social Forces. Vol. 70,No. 2: Lieberman, Evan S Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research. American Political Science Review Vol. 99, No. 3: Mahoney, James After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research. World Politics. Vol. 62, No. 1: Mahoney, James and Dietrich Rueschemeyer Chapters 9 and 10. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press Mahoney, James and Gary Goertz A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research. Political Analysis Przeworski, Adam, and Henry Teune The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. Wiley. Sekhon, Jasjeet S Quality Meets Quantity: Case Studies, Conditional Probability, and Counterfactuals. Perspectives on Politics Vol. 2, No. 2: Snyder, Richard Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method. Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 36, No. 1:

3 Process tracing Gryzmala-Busse, Anna Time Will Tell? Temporality and the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms and Processes. Comparative Political Studies. 44 (9): Bennett and Checkel Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 9. Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool. Cambridge University Press Collier, David Understanding Process Tracing. PS: Political Science and Politics FIELD RESEARCH METHODS Aunger, Robert Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: Food avoidance in the Ituri forest, Zaire. Ethnology Bernard, H. Russell Chapters 8, 12 and 13. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Alta Mira Press. Dewalt, Kathleen M. and Billie R. Dewalt Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers. Alta Mira Press. Fenno, Richard Appendix- Notes on Method: Participant Observation, in Home Style: House Members in their Districts. Little, Brown, and Co., pp Fujii, Lee Ann The Truth in Lies: Evaluating Testimonies of War and Genocide in Rwanda. Journal of Peace Research. Lofland, John, David Snow, Leon Anderson, and Lyn Lofland Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis. Wadsworth. Schatz, Edward Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 13. Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. University of Chicago Press. Sluka, Jeffrey A Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast, in Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Jeffrey A Sluka eds: Blackwell, Van Mannen, Jon Tales of the Field. University of Chicago Press. Wood, Elisabeth Field Research, The Handbook of Comparative Politics. Oxford. FIELD RESEARCH Anderson, Elijah Code of the street: decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. Norton & Company. Autesserre, Séverine Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention. Cambridge University Press. Bourgois, Philippe In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge. Cohen, Cathy J The boundaries of blackness: AIDS and the breakdown of black politics. University of Chicago Press. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt The Philadelphia Negro: a social study. Geertz, Clifford Notes on the Balinese Cockfight in The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books.

4 Graetz, Michael J. and Ian Shapiro Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth. Princeton University Press. Kim, Claire Jean Bitter fruit: The politics of black-korean conflict in New York City. Yale University Press. Pachirat, Timothy Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. Yale University Press. Scott, James C Weapons of the Weak. Yale University Press. Soss, Joe Unwanted claims: The politics of participation in the US welfare system. University of Michigan Press. Strolovitch, Dara Z Affirmative advocacy: Race, class, and gender in interest group politics. University of Chicago Press. Waters, Mary C Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities. Wedeen, Lisa Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. University of Chicago Press. Wood, Elisabeth Jean Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. Cambridge University Press. ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of the Human Subjects of Research. Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (the Common Rule ), see 46/index.html# Fujii, Lee Ann. Research Ethics 101: Dilemmas and Responsibilities. PS: Political Science & Politics. Vol. 45, No. 4: Jaarsma, Sjorerd ed Handle With Care. Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials. Pittsburgh. Kelman, Herbert The Rights of the Subject in Social Research: An analysis in terms of Relative Power and Legitimacy. American Psychologist. Vol. 27, No. 11: Murphy, Elizabeth and Robert Dingwall The Ethics of Ethnography. In Paul Atkinson, ed. The Handbook of Ethnography Sage. ARCHIVAL METHODS Bloch, Marc The Historian s Craft. Manchester University Press. Greenstein, Fred I. and Richard H. Immerman What Did Eisenhower Tell Kennedy About Indochina? The Politics of Misperception. Journal of American History. Vol. 79, No. 2. Hill, Michael R Archival strategies and techniques. Sage.

5 Howell, Martha and Walter Prevenier From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods. Cornell University Press. Novick, Peter That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge University Press. Trachtenberg, Marc The Craft of International History. Princeton University Press. White, Hayden Introduction. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press. ARCHIVAL RESEARCH EH Carr, Chapter on Weimar foreign policy. What is History. Penguin. Allison, Graham The Essence of Decision. Browning, Christopher Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. Harper. Goldhagen, Daniel Hitler s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Final Solution. Knopf. Daniel J. Goldhagen, Christopher R. Browning, and Leon Wieseltier The Willing Executioners / Ordinary Men Debate. US National Holocaust Museum. Lee, Taeku Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era. University of Chicago. Skrentny, John David The Minority Rights Revolution. Harvard University Press. Tong, James Disorder Under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty. Stanford. Weaver, Vesla M "Frontlash: Race and the development of punitive crime policy." Studies in American Political Development. Vol. 21, No. 2: 230. Weber, Eugen Peasants into Frenchmen. Stanford. DATA AND CODING Bernard, H. Russell Chapters 18 and 19. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Alta Mira Press. Campbell, Angus et al Chapter 10. The American Voter. University of Chicago. Cusack, Thomas R., Torben Iversen, and David Soskice Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems. American Political Science Review 101 (3): Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice Coevolution of Capitalism and Political Representation - The Choice of Electoral Systems. American Political Science Review. 104 (2): [response to Kreuzer 2010, see below] Dahl, Robert A Who Governs? Book III ( Patterns of Influence ), Appendixes A- C. Fenno, Richard F., Jr Introduction and Chapters 1-3. Congressmen in Committees.

6 Franzosi, Roberto Chapters 1 and 2. Quantitative Narrative Analysis. Sage Gerring, John Chapters 1-3 and Appendix. Party Ideologies in America, Hochschild, Jennifer Chapters 1-3 and Appendix B. What s Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. Kreuzer, Marcus Historical Knowledge and Quantitative Analysis: The Case of the Origins of Proportional Representation. American Political Science Review Vol. 104, No. 2. Lane, Robert E Introduction, Section I, and Appendix A. Political Ideology. Mayhew, David Chapter 4. Divided We Govern. Yale University Press. Przeworski, Alvarez, Limongi & Cheibub Chapter 1 (including appendices). Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, Cambridge University Press. Ryan, Gary W and H. Russell Bernard Data Management and Analysis Methods, in Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln eds: Sage, pp Wilkinson, Steven Appendix A. Votes and Violence. Cambridge. COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS Bensel, Richard Franklin Sectionalism and American Political Development, The University of Wisconsin Press. Gorski, Philip S The disciplinary revolution: Calvinism and the rise of the state in early modern Europe. University of Chicago Press. Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson Business Power and Social Policy: Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State. Politics & Society. Vol. 30, No. 2: Lawrence, Adria Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press. Luebbert, Gregory Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe. World Politics. Vol. 39, No. 4: Mahoney, James and Kathleen Thelen Chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis. Cambridge University Press. March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life. American Political Science Review Mayhew, David War and American Politics. Perspectives on Politics. Orren, Karen and Stephen Skowronek Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a New Institutionalism. In The Dynamics of American Politics. Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds. Bolder: Westview. Padgett, John and Christopher Ansell Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 98, No. 6:

7 Rokkan, Stein Part IV Cleavage Structure and Party Systems, pages In State Formation, Nation Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Ed. Peter Flora. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sahlins, Peter The Nation in the Village: State-Building and Communal Struggles in the Catalan Borderland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Journal of Modern History. Vol. 60, No. 2: Schickler, Eric Disjointed pluralism: institutional innovation and the development of the U.S. Congress. Princeton University Press. Scott, James C Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press Sewell, William Political Events as Structural Transformations: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille. Theory and Society. Vol. 24: Shefter, Martin Party and Patronage: Germany, England, and Italy. Politics and Society. Vol. 7: Skocpol, Theda States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge University Press. Skowronek, Stephen Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, Cambridge University Press. Swenson, Peter Parts I and II. Pages 1-23, 39-90, and Capitalists against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden. Oxford. Swenson, Peter Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions, and the Regulatory Welfare State in the United States and Sweden. Studies in American Political Development. Vol. 18, No. 1: See also the response by Jacob Jacker and Paul Pierson, Vol. 18, No. 2: , and Swenson s rejoinder, 18 (2), pp