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050	0	0	_aH 61 _bC27 2022
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245	0	4	_aThe case for case studies : _bmethods and applications in international development / _cedited by Jennifer Widner, Michael Woolcock, Daniel Ortega Nieto.
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264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2022.
300			_a330 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aStrategies for social inquiry
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Preface This volume was conceived, as we suspect are many such ventures, during an informal conversation - in this instance, in Berlin in December 2014, at the launch of the Global Delivery Initiative. All three of us were engaged with different aspects of international development, and producing or using case studies with some frequency, but we found ourselves noting that while case studies remained widely deployed across the social sciences, and that expressions such as 'the case of' were ubiquitous even in everyday speech, case studies per se remained in something of a residual methodological space - they were popularly conceived as 'qualitative', for example, yet one could find many instances in which the constituent elements of a given 'case' in economics were exclusively quantitative (or in medicine, for example, physiological; or in law, jurisprudential). If a singular case was indeed primarily qualitative, the key question asked by Christian Lund - 'Of what is this case?' - still remained to answered, which logically meant that the case had to be connected in some way (empirically, theoretically) to broader instances or manifestations of a phenomena. Was this a 'typical' case? A randomly selected case? An outlier? How does one know? Moreover, if a common critique of case studies was either that their underlying methodological quality was highly variable (selection bias! selecting on the dependent variable!), or that generalizing from them was at best problematic, then there surely needed to be a serious scholarly response to such concerns. Can causal inferences reasonably be drawn from a single case? If so, under what conditions? In development practice, when and how can policymakers reasonably presume that a demonstrably successful intervention in one context might generate similarly impressive outcomes elsewhere, or if massively 'scaled up'? For their part, social science methodologists have in fact made impressive advances on these fronts in recent years, yet much of this analysis remains disconnected from development practice and/or grounded in comparative 'cases' of large meta-categories of country characteristics - 'democracy', 'revolutions', 'constitutions', 'rule of law' - that is not the unit of analysis at which the vast majority of practitioners think and act about development problems and solutions (which is: how to design and implement particular policies/projects that will achieve particular development objectives for particular groups in particular places despite numerous constraints and likely active political opposition). In short, we discerned two serious mismatches: first, between the ubiquity of case studies and their rather 'loose' methodological moorings; and second, between the epicenter of serious scholarly activity advancing the methodological frontier of case study research ('producers') and the place where most users ('consumers') of case studies - at least in development policy and practice - actually resided. Narrowing these twin gaps, then, became the mission of this book. While it draws on our collective experience at the nexus of development research and practice, we like to think that the underlying issues are more broadly relevant. As such, we hope readers engaging with case studies from many different starting points - disciplinary base, epistemological orientation, sectoral specialization or practical concerns - will find issues of significance for them discussed in this volume. More generally, we hope the ideas, strategies and challenges outlined herein prompt further advances from both researchers and practitioners, on the basis of more fruitful and informed dialogue between them - if only because the kinds of questions in play here, as elsewhere, are unlikely ever to be solved by a lone genius"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSocial sciences _xMethodology.
650		0	_aSocial sciences _vCase studies.
700	1		_aWidner, Jennifer A., _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _tCase for case studies _dNew York : Cambridge University Press, 2022 _z9781108688253 _w(DLC) 2021049587
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