From marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca  Thu Oct  2 10:03:05 2008
From: marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca (marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:03:05 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Using Ethnography to Study
	Uneasily	Accessible State Actors
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Dear Julia,

Thank you so much for your precious feedback. It shows that one cannot  
get away with simply neglecting history and how ahistorical puzzles  
may in some ways be misleading. I will make sure to take your insights  
into consideration as I write my proposal and gather data in the  
field. To some extent, the mere fact that the state has remained  
committed to maintaining religious/ideological orthodoxy and taking  
rural/land-based demands seriously, despite regime changes and other  
structural changes in China and in the world over time, is in itself a  
genuine puzzle. The only concern I have is that by broadening the time  
frame of the analysis, I may be reducing the chances that my findings  
be representative of the specificities characterizing the Chinese  
context today. While the state may have been relatively constant in  
being responsive to land-based demands and repressing religious  
mobilizers over time, it may have been so for different reasons  
(reasons differing based on changing structural conditions). Another  
way of looking at it would be to acknowledge that the variance  
emphasized in the puzzle is not a new phenomenon, but that the reasons  
why such variance persists nowadays could [and only field research  
will tell] be different from the reasons  for such variance in early  
XXth century, or centuries ago.

I will get back to Patrick shortly.

Best,

--
Marie-Eve Reny
Department of Political Science
Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca

Quoting Julia Strauss <js11 at soas.ac.uk>:

> Dear Marie,
>
> For my two cents' worth (I may be one of the few explicitly "China scholars"
> on this list), there are a range of possible answers to your "puzzle" ---
> which, if you have training in chinese history and a long duree perspective
> on the chinese state --- start to look much less puzzling. Crudely, the
> chinese state from late imperial times (Ming at the very least) has fairly
> consistently exhibited exactly this sort of reaction: deep suspicion of
> anything that smacks of "heterodox" religion, and equal sensitivity and
> attention to rural protest, particularly protests that are wrapped up with
> issues of reasonable subsistence (See R. Bin Wong / Pierre Etienne Will's
> work on granaries as an example of this).
>
> Now, as a practical matter, this has meant, despite regime change and a
> bunch of other things changing, that the Chinese central stated has been
> remarkably consistent over time:, deeply concerned with maintaining
> religious/ ideological orthodoxy (even as it tolerates and even condones a
> range of popular practices - the devil here is in the detail), as well as
> where to make an appropriate judgment call as to where to draw the line
> between implicitly understandable if not acceptable "protest" and
> un-acceptable "disorder". (Central and more local levels of government may
> well diverge on this point).
>
> It turns out that there is a variety of ways to study this in the
> contemporary period short of getting access to central government leaders.
> There is in fact a highly developed discourse on exactly these matters,
> freely available in print, that justifies actions taken or about to be taken
> - both against local officials for not providing subsistence and squeezing
> the people too hard, and against "evil sects". In fact, if you look back at
> the propaganda / media blitz surrounding the crackdown on falungong and
> after, you'll have enough data to keep you going for quite some time. The
> other place to look would be the to the press, reports, and interviews you
> can get with local implementors (typically Minzheng ju or chu I would
> think), and see how their discourse and actions differ (or are in alignment)
> with central rhetoric, directives, and sanctions.
>
> The historical dimension is key, though. There are a set of preoccupations
> and discourses that go way, way back here, that continue to be drawn upon in
> surprisingly unchanged ways.
>
> Julia Strauss
>
> 2008/9/29 <marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca>
>
>>  Dear all,
>>
>> I apologize for the delay in my response and would like to thank you
>> for your helpful thoughts in reaction to my questions. I would like to
>> clarify a few things and respond to some comments:
>>
>> * Jeremy -- There are two reasons why I would not change my research
>> topic for one that gives priority to diaspora communities: 1) while
>> ethnography seems to have predominantly been used to study realities
>> pertaining to societal actors (more easily accessible to the
>> ethnographer), more ought to be written on how to overcome the
>> challenge of "reconciling" ethnography and the study of the state; one
>> of the objectives of my project is to be innovative from a
>> methodological perspective and generate insights that can be helpful
>> for political scientists for whom the state is after all one of the
>> most important units of analysis. If we want ethnographic research
>> designs to become more widespread in Political Science, we ought to
>> figure out ways to address the potential analytical tensions involved
>> in applying ethnographic methods to the study of the state (and even
>> more so in non-democratic societies); 2) too many scholars have
>> studied China through the lenses of diaspora communities in different
>> parts of the world; the epistemic community's expectations about China
>> experts' familiarity with the Chinese context have grown to the extent
>> that China scholars cannot get away with simply doing field research
>> amongst diapora communities and pretend to be "China experts"; fluency
>> in Mandarin (or any other Chinese language) as well as extensive (if
>> not intensive) research in the field are two such expectations which
>> may have not existed 10 or 20 years ago. These expectations grow in a
>> context where the world wants to know more about China; as Ed
>> mentioned, we ought to get as close as possible to the sources of
>> evidence, and the least this involves is being physically in China.
>>
>> * Patrick -- You mentioned you were curious as to what the original
>> research question was. I should have perhaps been more specific here.
>> My project starts with the following puzzle: why has the central
>> government in China been constant in repressing often peacefully
>> mobilizing religious protesters, and has recently shown greater
>> responsiveness to increasingly disruptive and violent land-related
>> protests?
>>
>> I'd like to respond to some of the issues you raised. I did not think
>> the words I used in my post would be subject to such scrutiny. You
>> seem to dislike my usage of "rationale underlying" claiming that it
>> presumes some kind of "psychoanalytic depth model". I would however be
>> concerned to overlook such a possibility for two reasons: first, the
>> causes of actions are not always self-evident; second, and not
>> unrelated to the first point, explaining the 'why' of actions goes
>> beyond publicly expressed rationales; indeed, it is also about
>> explaining the 'why' of 'how' rationales may be expressed publicly,
>> but most importantly, the mechanisms that make central government
>> officials categorize and make sense of collective claims in certain
>> ways. Moreover, even when publicly expressed rationales reflect the
>> actual intentions of decision makers, this still has to be articulated
>> with some analytically convincing qualitative explanation; it cannot
>> just be assumed. Here, I think it is more desirable to think of public
>> rationales as part of a general outcome (i.e. state reaction to
>> collective protests), and what my analysis attempts to do is to
>> explain the processes leading to such an outcome. I would like to use
>> ethnography as a tool, among others (i.e. discourse analysis), to dig
>> into the complex psychology of the Chinese state.
>>
>> Of course there are problems in taking a smaller entity as a unit of
>> analysis to study aspects of the larger whole, and vice versa. Having
>> said that, claiming that the above procedure should be avoided as it
>> has its own limitations is in itself a problem. It assumes that
>> entities are not mutually interacting and influencing each other; to
>> the extent that they mutually interact, each unit can tell aspects of
>> a story about the other unit, and vice versa; we unfortunately (...or
>> fortunately) do not live in a world in which units live a life of
>> their own, and our analyses ought to take such complexity into
>> consideration.
>>
>> Finally, you seem unsure that one can "learn something about an object
>> by investigating patterns of social action oriented towards that
>>  object". Your comment however could be interpreted as based on the
>> assumption that there is something "real" about these objects that
>> cannot be captured by the study of other (related) objects. This
>> somehow contradicts your earlier skepticism about my usage of
>> "rationale underlying" (assuming the existence of a "real rationale").
>>
>> * Sohini -- Many thanks for the practical tips. I am still at the
>> stage where I am trying to figure out how building relationships with
>> local leaders may help me answer my puzzle. I imagine I will better be
>> able to identify these mechanisms in the field.
>>
>> * Dvora -- Whether local governments can be considered surrogates for
>> the top I believe varies from one locality to another and is partly
>> based on how good central-local government relations are (the latter
>> of which are influenced by a range of factors). Having said this, even
>> in areas where local-central government relations are tense and local
>> governments should not be considered surrogates for the top, a lot
>> could still be said about the motivations of the top in response to
>> collective protests targeting the bottom (i.e. strategic protesters
>> usually target the local government as opposed to the central
>> government).
>>
>> Sorry for the long email. Many many thanks once again for your
>> precious feedback!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Marie
>>
>> --
>> Marie-Eve Reny
>> Department of Political Science
>> Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies
>> University of Toronto
>> marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca
>>
>>
>> Quoting Patrick Thaddeus Jackson <patrickthaddeusjackson at gmail.com>:
>>
>>  > Before I take a position on Jeremy's suggestion (in a separate and
>> > subsequent e-mail to the one I'm replying to here) to essentially
>> > modify the research question to make it answerable in the light of the
>> > available data, I'm curious what the original research question
>> > actually was. "Rationale underlying" strikes me as a somewhat
>> > problematic place to begin, ethnographically speaking, since it
>> > presumes a kind of psychoanalytic depth model: here's what people do
>> > or did, and here's why they really did it, despite what they might
>> > have said in public. If they've given public rationales, and that's
>> > what you're interested in, then you don't actually need to talk to
>> > them; you've got their public rationales, after all. The only reason I
>> > can think of to actually talk to them at that point would be to
>> > somehow get through or past the public rationale to the "real"
>> > rationale, and that puts you in tricky epistemological territory.
>> > Ethnographic techniques can immerse you in a meaningful social
>> > context, but I am quite skeptical that it can ever even in principle
>> > get you to "real reasons" or "underlying rationales" -- because those
>> > conceptual objects have no place in an ethnographic analysis concerned
>> > with categories-in-use and other such features of lived social settings.
>> >
>> > Alternatively, you could approach the situation with a universal
>> > theory about interests in hand, and avoid the necessity to investigate
>> > people's lived social experiences altogether?
>> >
>> > I suppose what I'm asking is what Marie-Eve means by "insights about
>> > the behaviour of political actors." If this means clues as to their
>> > motivations, then that basically means using local informants as
>> > sources for hypotheses, a practice I am not fond of since it conflates
>> > primary- and secondary-source commentary. What local people think
>> > about their leaders' actions is a very interesting topic in its own
>> > right, but it is most emphatically not (in my view) a valid way to
>> > interrogate the actions of those leaders themselves. Although, as
>> > Jeremy seemed to suggest, it is a great way to make sense of the
>> > subject-positions that those leaders occupy in their local context. On
>> > the other hand, "insights about the behaviour of political actors"
>> > might instead mean primary-source information about what leaders said
>> > and did, then that looks fine to me, as long as the local governmental
>> > officials and other local people have that information (which strikes
>> > me as an empirical question).
>> >
>> > Or, to ask the same thing in yet a different way: I'm not quite sure
>> > what it means to take a smaller entity as a unit of analysis to study
>> > aspects of the larger whole to which that entity belongs. If we are
>> > talking about individuals, then the group to which they belong occurs
>> > as a commonplace carried in their social transactions, but we learn
>> > little about the group "itself" from that study; we learn about the
>> > role played by references to and actions oriented towards the group.
>> > It's waiting for Godot: we learn a lot about the people waiting, but
>> > little or nothing about Godot, by studying the actions (including
>> > words) of people waiting for Godot. We don't even learn whether Godot
>> > "really" exists, and it doesn't matter for the analysis: people
>> > comport themselves towards imaginary, or immaterial, or
>> > transcendental, objects all the time (e.g. "God", "witches",
>> > "justice"), and what matters is that people comport themselves and how
>> > they comport themselves. That's what has the effects. To buy into our
>> > informants' narratives to the point where we treat the testimony of a
>> > religious believer as evidence that God exists (or a nationalist that
>> > her nation exists, etc.) is to make, I think, a methodological mistake
>> > of a pretty profound sort.
>> >
>> > I'm just very skeptical of the proposition that we can learn something
>> > about an object by investigating patterns of social action oriented
>> > towards that object. That goes for governments, states, civilizations,
>> > people who aren't in the room at the time of the investigation, etc.
>> > All we learn about by observing social action is, well, social action,
>> > undertaken by the actors directly under observation. The fact that
>> > they reference or invoke other things is a fact about the actors and
>> > their social relations, not about the things they reference or invoke.
>> >
>> > I moved a bit far away from Marie-Eve's initial concerns! Sorry. But I
>> > do think that before one could make a determination about proxy data
>> > sources, one would at the very least have to more precisely define the
>> > research question, and how any data collected might help you to answer
>> > it.
>> >
>> > PTJ
>> >
>> > PS the "waiting for Godot" example isn't mine; it's John Shotter's,
>> > from his brilliant little book _Conversational Realities_.
>> >
>> > On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:23 PM, marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca wrote:
>> >
>> >> Greetings all,
>> >>
>> >> I am currently doing research on the rationale underlying central
>> >> government reactions to religious and land-related protests in China,
>> >> and will be starting sixteen months of field research in China in
>> >> February 2009. I would like a part of my research design to be
>> >> ethnographic, but remain unsure as to how to use ethnographic tools to
>> >> generate insights about the behaviour of central government actors in
>> >> China, whom as we know are hardly accessible to most researchers. Have
>> >> any scholars addressed how ethnography may be used to study the state
>> >> in a context where state actors are uneasily accessible? Is there a
>> >> way one could take alternative units of analysis like local government
>> >> officials (who are more accessible to researchers) to generate
>> >> insights about the behaviour of political actors located at higher
>> >> levels of the hierarchy? I am thinking that if there are advantages in
>> >> taking the individual as the unit of analysis to study aspects of
>> >> group behaviour, and the state as a unit to study aspects of the world
>> >> system (and vice versa), then there should be advantages in taking the
>> >> local government as a unit of analysis to generate findings about
>> >> central government actors' rationale for reacting in particular ways
>> >> to different kinds of collective claims. Any thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for your attention,
>> >>
>> >> Marie-Eve Reny
>> >> University of Toronto, Canada
>> >> marieeve.reny at utoronto.ca
>> >
>> >
>> > ===
>> > Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
>> > Director, General Education Program, American University
>> > Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Relations and Development
>> > http://profptj.blogspot.com | http://www.kittenboo.com
>> > calendar: http://ical.mac.com/onyxdr/Patrick
>> >
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From Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at  Fri Oct  3 06:24:21 2008
From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at (Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:24:21 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that is
	comparative?
Message-ID: <951B3150C616F74EB90F1040104B8CB66337EE@MAIL2.plus.sbg.ac.at>

Dear All,

 

I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?

Kind Regards

Helga P?lzl 

 

 

 

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Dr. Helga P?lzl

Department for Political Science and Sociology

University of Salzburg

 

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Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602

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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Fri Oct  3 06:34:48 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:34:48 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that
	iscomparative?
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Hi, Helga.
 
Compares it with what?
 
Dvora 
 
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Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that iscomparative?
 
Dear All,
 
I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
Kind Regards
Helga P?lzl 
 
 
 
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From Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at  Fri Oct  3 06:44:05 2008
From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at (Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:44:05 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
	thatiscomparative?
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Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative case analysis (and spells it out). 

Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make students aware that there is not only the research question- hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.

 

Kind Regards 

Helga

 

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Dr. Helga P?lzl

Department for Political Science and Sociology

University of Salzburg

 

Rudolfskai 42

A-5020 Salzburg

Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602

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Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
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Hi, Helga.

 

Compares it with what?

 

Dvora 

 

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Dear All,

 

I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?

Kind Regards

Helga P?lzl 

 

 

 

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Department for Political Science and Sociology

University of Salzburg

 

Rudolfskai 42

A-5020 Salzburg

Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602

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From Fischer at hsfk.de  Fri Oct  3 06:45:12 2008
From: Fischer at hsfk.de (Susanne Fischer)
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:45:12 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Antw: Interpretationandmethods Digest,
	Vol 46, Issue 2 (out of	office)
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Thanks for your email. 
I am currently out of office and will be back on 14th October, 2008. 


Best regards
Susanne Fischer  

From jed234 at nyu.edu  Fri Oct  3 10:00:14 2008
From: jed234 at nyu.edu (Jennifer E Dodge)
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:00:14 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
 thatiscomparative?
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Hi Helga,

I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.

I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to share with your students:

Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se); Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R. (there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.

Hope this is helpful,
Jennifer


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  of Public Service
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----- Original Message -----
From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu

> Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see 
> if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative 
> case analysis (and spells it out). 
> 
> Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a 
> comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make 
> students aware that there is not only the research question- 
> hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative 
> research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to 
> find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses 
> more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
> 
>  
> 
> Kind Regards 
> 
> Helga
> 
>  
> 
> ************************************
> 
> Dr. Helga P?lzl
> 
> Department for Political Science and Sociology
> 
> University of Salzburg
> 
>  
> 
> Rudolfskai 42
> 
> A-5020 Salzburg
> 
> Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> 
> Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> 
> email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> 
> www.uni-salzburg.at
> 
>  
> 
> Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu 
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im 
> Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
> Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
> An: interpretation and methods group
> Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
> 
>  
> 
> Hi, Helga.
> 
>  
> 
> Compares it with what?
> 
>  
> 
> Dvora 
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu 
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On 
> Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
> To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that iscomparative?
> 
>  
> 
> Dear All,
> 
>  
> 
> I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that 
> compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Helga P?lzl 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> ************************************
> 
> Dr. Helga P?lzl
> 
> Department for Political Science and Sociology
> 
> University of Salzburg
> 
>  
> 
> Rudolfskai 42
> 
> A-5020 Salzburg
> 
> Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> 
> Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> 
> email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> 
> www.uni-salzburg.at
> 
>  
> 
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Fri Oct  3 10:17:51 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:17:51 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
	thatiscomparative?
In-Reply-To: <f1d2d7152fcc8.48e5ed2e@mail.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368670@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>

Thanks, Jennifer!  This is very helpful.  Maria Jose Freitas, Peri Schwartz-Shea, and I wrote an encyclopedia entry on case study in political science last spring, and we - and in particular Maria Jose, for her own dissertation research - went in search of publications that might articulate an interpretive approach to comparative analysis.  We came up empty-handed (and looking at the syllabi we located for courses teaching case method was most depressing on this score).

Does your methods chapter discuss this at length?  If so, would you consider making it, or the relevant sections of it, available?

Dvora Yanow

-----Original Message-----
From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 16:00
To: interpretation and methods group
Cc: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?

Hi Helga,

I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.

I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to share with your students:

Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se); Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R. (there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.

Hope this is helpful,
Jennifer


Jennifer Dodge
Doctoral Candidate
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
  of Public Service
New York University
295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10012

office: 212-998-7493
home office: 718-493-2596
e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu

> Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see
> if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative
> case analysis (and spells it out).
>
> Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a
> comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make
> students aware that there is not only the research question-
> hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative
> research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to
> find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses
> more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
>
> 
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Helga
>
> 
>
> ************************************
>
> Dr. Helga P?lzl
>
> Department for Political Science and Sociology
>
> University of Salzburg
>
> 
>
> Rudolfskai 42
>
> A-5020 Salzburg
>
> Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
>
> Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
>
> email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
>
> www.uni-salzburg.at
>
> 
>
> Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
> Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
> An: interpretation and methods group
> Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
>
> 
>
> Hi, Helga.
>
> 
>
> Compares it with what?
>
> 
>
> Dvora
>
> 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
> Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
> To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that iscomparative?
>
> 
>
> Dear All,
>
> 
>
> I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that
> compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Helga P?lzl
>
> 
>
> 
>
> 
>
> ************************************
>
> Dr. Helga P?lzl
>
> Department for Political Science and Sociology
>
> University of Salzburg
>
> 
>
> Rudolfskai 42
>
> A-5020 Salzburg
>
> Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
>
> Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
>
> email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
>
> www.uni-salzburg.at
>
> 
>
> _______________________________________________
> Interpretationandmethods mailing list
> Interpretationandmethods at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
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From kmruck at cedis.fu-berlin.de  Fri Oct  3 12:43:04 2008
From: kmruck at cedis.fu-berlin.de (Katja Mruck)
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:43:04 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Forum: Qualitative Social Research: FQS
	9(3) "Visual Methods" online
In-Reply-To: <f1d2d7152fcc8.48e5ed2e@mail.nyu.edu>
References: <951B3150C616F74EB90F1040104B8CB66337EE@MAIL2.plus.sbg.ac.at>	<5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368656@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>	<951B3150C616F74EB90F1040104B8CB66337F6@MAIL2.plus.sbg.ac.at>
	<f1d2d7152fcc8.48e5ed2e@mail.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <48E64B98.6020805@cedis.fu-berlin.de>

Please excuse possible cross-postings!

Dear All,

I would like to inform you that FQS 9(3) -- "Visual Methods" 
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/11), 
edited by Hubert Knoblauch, Alejandro Baer, Eric Laurier, Sabine 
Petschke & Bernt Schnettler -- is available online. Articles are dealing 
with "Interpretative Visual Analysis", "Mobilising Visual Ethnography", 
"Using Video for a Sequential and Multimodal Analysis of Social 
Interaction" and many other issues.

In addition to articles relating to "Visual Methods", FQS 9(3) provides 
a number of selected single contributions (on "Methodological 
Considerations for Conducting Qualitative Interviews with Youth 
Receiving Mental Health Services", on "The Role of the Researcher in the 
Narration of Life" to mention just two examples) as well as articles 
belonging to various FQS sections, as f.e. a "Book Review Symposium: 
Between Reflexivity and Consolidation -- Qualitative Research in the 
Mirror of Handbooks".

FQS is an open-access journal, so all articles are available for free. 
Since January 2000, 29 special issues with all in all 1.135 articles by 
1.063 authors from all over the world had been published (see 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for 
former issues, 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/search/titles for a 
list of titles, and 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/search/authors for a 
list of authors who published in FQS).

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From jed234 at nyu.edu  Fri Oct  3 15:13:17 2008
From: jed234 at nyu.edu (Jennifer E Dodge)
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:13:17 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
 thatiscomparative?
In-Reply-To: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368670@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>
References: <f1d2d7152fcc8.48e5ed2e@mail.nyu.edu>
	<5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368670@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>
Message-ID: <f1d2c2fe2ccc5.48e6368d@mail.nyu.edu>

Hi Dvora,

I haven't written about this explicitly in my methods chapter, but might consider doing so since there seems to be a need for it.  If I do, I would be happy to circulate it, but it won't happen until at least the spring. 

Is there anyone else out there doing comparative interpretive case studies? Might be worth organizing a panel for APSA or IPA for next year to push this forward.  Maybe Maria Jose would be interested?

Best,
Jennifer


Jennifer Dodge
Doctoral Candidate
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
  of Public Service
New York University
295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10012

office: 212-998-7493
home office: 718-493-2596
e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Dvora Yanow <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 10:17 am
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
To: interpretation and methods group <interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu>

> Thanks, Jennifer!  This is very helpful.  Maria Jose Freitas, Peri 
> Schwartz-Shea, and I wrote an encyclopedia entry on case study in 
> political science last spring, and we - and in particular Maria Jose, 
> for her own dissertation research - went in search of publications 
> that might articulate an interpretive approach to comparative 
> analysis.  We came up empty-handed (and looking at the syllabi we 
> located for courses teaching case method was most depressing on this score).
> 
> Does your methods chapter discuss this at length?  If so, would you 
> consider making it, or the relevant sections of it, available?
> 
> Dvora Yanow
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu 
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On 
> Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
> Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 16:00
> To: interpretation and methods group
> Cc: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
> 
> Hi Helga,
> 
> I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive 
> case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be 
> from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do 
> comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world 
> unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are 
> very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how 
> unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.
> 
> I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing 
> policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't 
> found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive 
> approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to 
> share with your students:
> 
> Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely 
> develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se); 
> Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
> 
> Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good 
> descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted 
> it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R. 
> (there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and 
> methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.
> 
> Hope this is helpful,
> Jennifer
> 
> 
> Jennifer Dodge
> Doctoral Candidate
> Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
>   of Public Service
> New York University
> 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
> New York, NY 10012
> 
> office: 212-998-7493
> home office: 718-493-2596
> e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
> To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> 
> > Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see
> > if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative
> > case analysis (and spells it out).
> >
> > Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a
> > comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make
> > students aware that there is not only the research question-
> > hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative
> > research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to
> > find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses
> > more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
> > Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im
> > Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
> > An: interpretation and methods group
> > Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Hi, Helga.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Compares it with what?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dvora
> >
> > 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> > Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
> > To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that iscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > 
> >
> > I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that
> > compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga P?lzl
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Interpretationandmethods mailing list
> > Interpretationandmethods at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/interpretationandmethods
> _______________________________________________
> Interpretationandmethods mailing list
> Interpretationandmethods at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/interpretationandmethods
> _______________________________________________
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Fri Oct  3 15:19:46 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:19:46 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
	thatiscomparative?
In-Reply-To: <f1d2c2fe2ccc5.48e6368d@mail.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368691@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>

In fact, she organized a panel at the Interpretive Policy Analysis conference last June, on case method, which got us 3 views from different positions.  The contrast between 'traditional' c.s. and a more interpretive approach, which one could sense through Robert Adcock's history of the idea of comparing, was stark!

I know she's been thinking of a follow-up that would be more centrally focused on interpretive-comparative.  As she catches up with these messages later this Fall, perhaps she will let us know.

Dvora 

-----Original Message-----
From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 21:13
To: interpretation and methods group
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?

Hi Dvora,

I haven't written about this explicitly in my methods chapter, but might consider doing so since there seems to be a need for it.  If I do, I would be happy to circulate it, but it won't happen until at least the spring.

Is there anyone else out there doing comparative interpretive case studies? Might be worth organizing a panel for APSA or IPA for next year to push this forward.  Maybe Maria Jose would be interested?

Best,
Jennifer


Jennifer Dodge
Doctoral Candidate
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
  of Public Service
New York University
295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10012

office: 212-998-7493
home office: 718-493-2596
e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Dvora Yanow <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 10:17 am
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
To: interpretation and methods group <interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu>

> Thanks, Jennifer!  This is very helpful.  Maria Jose Freitas, Peri
> Schwartz-Shea, and I wrote an encyclopedia entry on case study in
> political science last spring, and we - and in particular Maria Jose,
> for her own dissertation research - went in search of publications
> that might articulate an interpretive approach to comparative
> analysis.  We came up empty-handed (and looking at the syllabi we
> located for courses teaching case method was most depressing on this score).
>
> Does your methods chapter discuss this at length?  If so, would you
> consider making it, or the relevant sections of it, available?
>
> Dvora Yanow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
> Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
> Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 16:00
> To: interpretation and methods group
> Cc: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
>
> Hi Helga,
>
> I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive
> case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be
> from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do
> comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world
> unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are
> very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how
> unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.
>
> I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing
> policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't
> found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive
> approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to
> share with your students:
>
> Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely
> develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se);
> Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
>
> Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good
> descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted
> it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R.
> (there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and
> methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.
>
> Hope this is helpful,
> Jennifer
>
>
> Jennifer Dodge
> Doctoral Candidate
> Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
>   of Public Service
> New York University
> 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
> New York, NY 10012
>
> office: 212-998-7493
> home office: 718-493-2596
> e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
> To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
>
> > Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see
> > if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative
> > case analysis (and spells it out).
> >
> > Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a
> > comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make
> > students aware that there is not only the research question-
> > hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative
> > research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to
> > find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses
> > more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga
> >
> >
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> >
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> >
> >
> > Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im
> > Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
> > An: interpretation and methods group
> > Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi, Helga.
> >
> >
> >
> > Compares it with what?
> >
> >
> >
> > Dvora
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> > Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
> > To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that iscomparative?
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that
> > compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga P?lzl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> >
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Interpretationandmethods mailing list
> > Interpretationandmethods at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/interpretationandmethods
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From oren at polisci.ufl.edu  Fri Oct  3 15:29:04 2008
From: oren at polisci.ufl.edu (Ido Oren)
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:29:04 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative
	research	thatiscomparative?
In-Reply-To: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368691@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>
References: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368691@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>
Message-ID: <48E67280.9000904@polisci.ufl.edu>

Joe Soss's first book, which is based on unstructured interviews with 
welfare recipients, has a comparative element inasmuch as Joe compared 
welfare recipients from two different government agencies. Joe discusses 
this work in the chapter he contributed to the volume edited by Dvora 
and Peri (see below).
Ido

Joe Soss, "Talking Our Way to Meaningful Explanations: A 
Practice-centered View of Interviewing for Interpretive Research" in 
Yanow and Schwartz-Shea, /Interpretation and method: empirical research 
methods and the interpretive turn
/

Dvora Yanow wrote:

>In fact, she organized a panel at the Interpretive Policy Analysis conference last June, on case method, which got us 3 views from different positions.  The contrast between 'traditional' c.s. and a more interpretive approach, which one could sense through Robert Adcock's history of the idea of comparing, was stark!
>
>I know she's been thinking of a follow-up that would be more centrally focused on interpretive-comparative.  As she catches up with these messages later this Fall, perhaps she will let us know.
>
>Dvora 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
>Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 21:13
>To: interpretation and methods group
>Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
>
>Hi Dvora,
>
>I haven't written about this explicitly in my methods chapter, but might consider doing so since there seems to be a need for it.  If I do, I would be happy to circulate it, but it won't happen until at least the spring.
>
>Is there anyone else out there doing comparative interpretive case studies? Might be worth organizing a panel for APSA or IPA for next year to push this forward.  Maybe Maria Jose would be interested?
>
>Best,
>Jennifer
>
>
>Jennifer Dodge
>Doctoral Candidate
>Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
>  of Public Service
>New York University
>295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
>New York, NY 10012
>
>office: 212-998-7493
>home office: 718-493-2596
>e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dvora Yanow <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>
>Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 10:17 am
>Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
>To: interpretation and methods group <interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu>
>
>  
>
>>Thanks, Jennifer!  This is very helpful.  Maria Jose Freitas, Peri
>>Schwartz-Shea, and I wrote an encyclopedia entry on case study in
>>political science last spring, and we - and in particular Maria Jose,
>>for her own dissertation research - went in search of publications
>>that might articulate an interpretive approach to comparative
>>analysis.  We came up empty-handed (and looking at the syllabi we
>>located for courses teaching case method was most depressing on this score).
>>
>>Does your methods chapter discuss this at length?  If so, would you
>>consider making it, or the relevant sections of it, available?
>>
>>Dvora Yanow
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
>>[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
>>Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
>>Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 16:00
>>To: interpretation and methods group
>>Cc: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
>>Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
>>
>>Hi Helga,
>>
>>I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive
>>case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be
>>from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do
>>comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world
>>unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are
>>very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how
>>unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.
>>
>>I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing
>>policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't
>>found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive
>>approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to
>>share with your students:
>>
>>Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely
>>develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se);
>>Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
>>
>>Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good
>>descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted
>>it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R.
>>(there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and
>>methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.
>>
>>Hope this is helpful,
>>Jennifer
>>
>>
>>Jennifer Dodge
>>Doctoral Candidate
>>Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
>>  of Public Service
>>New York University
>>295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
>>New York, NY 10012
>>
>>office: 212-998-7493
>>home office: 718-493-2596
>>e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
>>Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
>>Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
>>To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see
>>>if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative
>>>case analysis (and spells it out).
>>>
>>>Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a
>>>comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make
>>>students aware that there is not only the research question-
>>>hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative
>>>research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to
>>>find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses
>>>more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Kind Regards
>>>
>>>Helga
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>************************************
>>>
>>>Dr. Helga P?lzl
>>>
>>>Department for Political Science and Sociology
>>>
>>>University of Salzburg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Rudolfskai 42
>>>
>>>A-5020 Salzburg
>>>
>>>Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
>>>
>>>Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
>>>
>>>email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
>>>
>>>www.uni-salzburg.at
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
>>>[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im
>>>Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
>>>Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
>>>An: interpretation and methods group
>>>Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research thatiscomparative?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi, Helga.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Compares it with what?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Dvora
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
>>>[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
>>>Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
>>>Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
>>>To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
>>>Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that iscomparative?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Dear All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that
>>>compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
>>>
>>>Kind Regards
>>>
>>>Helga P?lzl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>************************************
>>>
>>>Dr. Helga P?lzl
>>>
>>>Department for Political Science and Sociology
>>>
>>>University of Salzburg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Rudolfskai 42
>>>
>>>A-5020 Salzburg
>>>
>>>Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
>>>
>>>Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
>>>
>>>email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
>>>
>>>www.uni-salzburg.at
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Interpretationandmethods mailing list
>>>Interpretationandmethods at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
>>>http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/interpretationandmethods
>>>      
>>>
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From Tamara.metze at tiscali.nl  Sat Oct  4 05:24:15 2008
From: Tamara.metze at tiscali.nl (Tamara Metze)
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:24:15 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
	thatiscomparative?
In-Reply-To: <f1d2c2fe2ccc5.48e6368d@mail.nyu.edu>
References: <f1d2d7152fcc8.48e5ed2e@mail.nyu.edu><5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368670@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>
	<f1d2c2fe2ccc5.48e6368d@mail.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <003701c92602$f85b8fb0$9865fea9@D8LR3Q2J>

Hi all,
I would be interested in such a panel. I have written a chapter on, what I
call, 'reflexive research design' that includes a comparative case study in
my dissertation (to be defended this spring hopefully). Together with Peri's
chapter, Flyvbjerg (2006) was a helpful source for me in thinking about
(comparative) case study research in interpretative analysis. Patton (1990)
(and indeed Yin) were also helpful for my argument. 
Best wishes,
Tamara

Flyvbjerg, B. (2006) Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Qualitative Inquiry, 12, 219-245

Patton, M. Q. (1990) Qualitative evaluation and research methods, Sage
Publications, Inc., Newburry Park

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Namens
Jennifer E Dodge
Verzonden: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 21:13
Aan: interpretation and methods group
Onderwerp: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?

Hi Dvora,

I haven't written about this explicitly in my methods chapter, but might
consider doing so since there seems to be a need for it.  If I do, I would
be happy to circulate it, but it won't happen until at least the spring. 

Is there anyone else out there doing comparative interpretive case studies?
Might be worth organizing a panel for APSA or IPA for next year to push this
forward.  Maybe Maria Jose would be interested?

Best,
Jennifer


Jennifer Dodge
Doctoral Candidate
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
  of Public Service
New York University
295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10012

office: 212-998-7493
home office: 718-493-2596
e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Dvora Yanow <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 10:17 am
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
To: interpretation and methods group
<interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu>

> Thanks, Jennifer!  This is very helpful.  Maria Jose Freitas, Peri 
> Schwartz-Shea, and I wrote an encyclopedia entry on case study in 
> political science last spring, and we - and in particular Maria Jose, 
> for her own dissertation research - went in search of publications 
> that might articulate an interpretive approach to comparative 
> analysis.  We came up empty-handed (and looking at the syllabi we 
> located for courses teaching case method was most depressing on this
score).
> 
> Does your methods chapter discuss this at length?  If so, would you 
> consider making it, or the relevant sections of it, available?
> 
> Dvora Yanow
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu 
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On 
> Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
> Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 16:00
> To: interpretation and methods group
> Cc: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> 
> Hi Helga,
> 
> I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive 
> case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be 
> from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do 
> comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world 
> unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are 
> very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how 
> unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.
> 
> I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing 
> policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't 
> found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive 
> approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to 
> share with your students:
> 
> Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely 
> develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se); 
> Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.
> 
> Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good 
> descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted 
> it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R. 
> (there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and 
> methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.
> 
> Hope this is helpful,
> Jennifer
> 
> 
> Jennifer Dodge
> Doctoral Candidate
> Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
>   of Public Service
> New York University
> 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
> New York, NY 10012
> 
> office: 212-998-7493
> home office: 718-493-2596
> e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> 
> > Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see
> > if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative
> > case analysis (and spells it out).
> >
> > Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a
> > comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make
> > students aware that there is not only the research question-
> > hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative
> > research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to
> > find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses
> > more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
> > Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im
> > Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
> > An: interpretation and methods group
> > Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Hi, Helga.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Compares it with what?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dvora
> >
> > 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> > Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
> > To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that
iscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > 
> >
> > I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that
> > compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga P?lzl
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Interpretationandmethods mailing list
> > Interpretationandmethods at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/interpretationandmethods
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From Tamara.metze at tiscali.nl  Sat Oct  4 05:24:15 2008
From: Tamara.metze at tiscali.nl (Tamara Metze)
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:24:15 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
	thatiscomparative?
In-Reply-To: <f1d2c2fe2ccc5.48e6368d@mail.nyu.edu>
References: <f1d2d7152fcc8.48e5ed2e@mail.nyu.edu><5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368670@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>
	<f1d2c2fe2ccc5.48e6368d@mail.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <003701c92602$f85b8fb0$9865fea9@D8LR3Q2J>

Hi all,
I would be interested in such a panel. I have written a chapter on, what I
call, 'reflexive research design' that includes a comparative case study in
my dissertation (to be defended this spring hopefully). Together with Peri's
chapter, Flyvbjerg (2006) was a helpful source for me in thinking about
(comparative) case study research in interpretative analysis. Patton (1990)
(and indeed Yin) were also helpful for my argument. 
Best wishes,
Tamara

Flyvbjerg, B. (2006) Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Qualitative Inquiry, 12, 219-245

Patton, M. Q. (1990) Qualitative evaluation and research methods, Sage
Publications, Inc., Newburry Park

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Namens
Jennifer E Dodge
Verzonden: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 21:13
Aan: interpretation and methods group
Onderwerp: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?

Hi Dvora,

I haven't written about this explicitly in my methods chapter, but might
consider doing so since there seems to be a need for it.  If I do, I would
be happy to circulate it, but it won't happen until at least the spring. 

Is there anyone else out there doing comparative interpretive case studies?
Might be worth organizing a panel for APSA or IPA for next year to push this
forward.  Maybe Maria Jose would be interested?

Best,
Jennifer


Jennifer Dodge
Doctoral Candidate
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
  of Public Service
New York University
295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10012

office: 212-998-7493
home office: 718-493-2596
e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Dvora Yanow <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 10:17 am
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
To: interpretation and methods group
<interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu>

> Thanks, Jennifer!  This is very helpful.  Maria Jose Freitas, Peri 
> Schwartz-Shea, and I wrote an encyclopedia entry on case study in 
> political science last spring, and we - and in particular Maria Jose, 
> for her own dissertation research - went in search of publications 
> that might articulate an interpretive approach to comparative 
> analysis.  We came up empty-handed (and looking at the syllabi we 
> located for courses teaching case method was most depressing on this
score).
> 
> Does your methods chapter discuss this at length?  If so, would you 
> consider making it, or the relevant sections of it, available?
> 
> Dvora Yanow
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu 
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On 
> Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
> Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 16:00
> To: interpretation and methods group
> Cc: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> 
> Hi Helga,
> 
> I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive 
> case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be 
> from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do 
> comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world 
> unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are 
> very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how 
> unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.
> 
> I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing 
> policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't 
> found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive 
> approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to 
> share with your students:
> 
> Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely 
> develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se); 
> Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.
> 
> Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good 
> descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted 
> it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R. 
> (there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and 
> methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.
> 
> Hope this is helpful,
> Jennifer
> 
> 
> Jennifer Dodge
> Doctoral Candidate
> Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
>   of Public Service
> New York University
> 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
> New York, NY 10012
> 
> office: 212-998-7493
> home office: 718-493-2596
> e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> 
> > Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see
> > if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative
> > case analysis (and spells it out).
> >
> > Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a
> > comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make
> > students aware that there is not only the research question-
> > hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative
> > research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to
> > find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses
> > more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
> > Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im
> > Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
> > An: interpretation and methods group
> > Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Hi, Helga.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Compares it with what?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dvora
> >
> > 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> > Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
> > To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that
iscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > 
> >
> > I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that
> > compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga P?lzl
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
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From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 15:57:33 +0200
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From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:16:08 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] journals under threat
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there is not a conversation there about this, it is the graduate  
student list for all science and technology studies on google  
groups.   I think you might find some discussion arising as the  
editorials of the journals appear, but as of yet, the two places there  
has been discussion has been on ph.d. design, which is a list that  
used to be about whether the nascent field of interdiscilinary design  
could have a research ph.d. and there has been some discussion on the  
vpiej, which is my institution's electronic journals list and one of  
the oldest lists on that topic.   as for your concerns below, they've  
not yet reared their head.  as a quick scan of the literature shows  
journal citation impact factors do not indicate anything in regard to  
the quality of the journal, and ranking journals in the field using  
any construction of the current quality of the journal doesn't really  
have any guaranteed indication of future value in the field, though  
granted some fields are more institutionalized and stable than others  
and with that institutionalization, you tend to have preserved  
hegemonic positions.
On Oct 5, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Dvora Yanow wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for posting this!  It is, indeed, very troubling -- and of  
> importance to those of us in fields other than science studies in  
> its various shapes/forms.
>
> It seems to me to be a potentially useful and creative way of  
> pushing back against such rating schemes, but I would like to hear  
> from the signatories what their thinking is about the effect of  
> having their journals de-listed.  If, e.g., departments are ranking  
> their staff and are themselves being ranked by deans and other  
> university administrators by publication records in these journals,  
> and even more, if such ranking is tied to state and other funding,  
> what will be the effect of de-listing?
>
> Before advocating for such an approach in other fields, I think it  
> would be important for all of us to have a clearer understanding of  
> the implications and (unintended) consequences.
>
> Could you post this query to whatever list you found the  
> announcement on?  Perhaps they could post a reply directly to this  
> list, via you or me.
>
> Dvora Yanow
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu on  
> behalf of jeremy hunsinger
> Sent: Tue 30-Sep-08 17:29
> To: DESIGN-RESEARCH at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; Language in the New Capitalism;  
> interpretation and methods group
> Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] journals under threat
>
> Sorry for x-posting, but I think people need to know this is likely
> going on in their field too.
>
> Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science,
> Technology and Medicine Editors
>
> We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being
> standardized,
> quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of science and
> technology must regard this as a fascinating and crucial practical,
> cultural and intellectual phenomenon.  Analysis of the roots and  
> meaning
> of metrics and metrology has been a preoccupation of much of the best
> work
> in our field for the past quarter century at least. As practitioners  
> of
> the
> interconnected disciplines that make up the field of science  
> studies  we
> understand how significant, contingent and uncertain can be the
> process of
> rendering nature and society in grades, classes and numbers.   We now
> confront a situation in which our own research work is being subjected
> to
> putatively precise accountancy by arbitrary and unaccountable  
> agencies.
> Some may already be aware of the proposed European Reference Index for
> the
> Humanities  (ERIH), an initiative originating with the European  
> Science
> Foundation. The ERIH is an attempt to grade journals in the  
> humanities -
> including "history and philosophy of science". The initiative  
> proposes a
> league table of academic journals, with premier, second and third
> divisions.
> According to the European Science Foundation, ERIH "aims initially to
> identify, and gain more visibility for, top-quality European  
> Humanities
> research published in academic journals in, potentially, all European
> languages". It is hoped "that ERIH will form the backbone of a
> fully-fledged research information system for the Humanities". What is
> meant, however, is that ERIH will provide funding bodies and other
> agencies in Europe and elsewhere with an allegedly  exact measure of
> research quality. In short, if research is published in a premier  
> league
> journal it will be recognized as first rate; if it appears somewhere  
> in
> the lower divisions, it will be rated (and not funded) accordingly.
> This
> initiative is entirely defective in conception and execution. Consider
> the
> major issues of accountability and transparency. The process of
> producing
> the graded list of  journals in science studies was overseen by a
> committee of four (the membership is currently listed at
> http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/research-
> infrastructures-including-erih/erih-governance-and-panels/erih-expert-
> panel s
> .html). This committee cannot be considered representative. It was not
> selected in consultation with any of the various disciplinary
> organizations that currently represent our field such as the European
> Association for the History of Medicine and Health,  the Society for  
> the
> Social History of Medicine, the British Society for the History of
> Science, the History of Science Society, the Philosophy of Science
> Association, the Society for the History of Technology or the Society
> for
> Social Studies of Science.  Journal editors were only belatedly  
> informed
> of the process and its relevant criteria or asked to provide any
> information regarding their publications.
> No indication hgiven of the means through which the list was compiled;
> nor
> how it might be  maintained in the future.  The ERIH depends on a
> fundamental misunderstanding of conduct and publication of  research
> in our
> field, and in the humanities in general. Journals' quality cannot be
> separated from their contents and their review processes. Great  
> research
> may be published anywhere and in any language. Truly ground-breaking
> work
> may be more likely to appear from marginal, dissident or unexpected
> sources, rather than from a well-established and entrenched  
> mainstream.
> Our journals are various, heterogeneous and distinct. Some are aimed
> at a
> broad, general and international readership, others are more  
> specialized
> in their content and implied audience. Their scope and readership say
> nothing about the quality of their intellectual content. The ERIH, on
> the
> other hand, confuses internationality with quality in a way that is
> particularly prejudicial to specialist and non-English language
> journals.
> In a recent report, the British Academy, with judicious  
> understatement,
> concludes that "the European Reference Index for the Humanities as
> presently conceived does not represent a reliable way in which metrics
> of
> peer-reviewed publications can be constructed" (Peer Review: the
> Challenges for the Humanities and Social Sciences, September  2007:
> http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/peer-review). Such exercises as ERIH  
> can
> become self- fulfilling prophecies. If such measures as ERIH are  
> adopted
> as metrics by funding and other agencies, then many in our field will
> conclude that they have little choice other than to limit their
> publications to journals in the premier division. We will sustain  
> fewer
> journals, much less diversity and impoverish our discipline. Along  
> with
> many others in our field, this Journal has concluded that we want no
> part
> of this dangerous and misguided exercise. This joint Editorial is  
> being
> published in journals across the fields of history of science and
> science
> studies as an expression of  our collective dissent and our refusal to
> allow our field to be managed and appraised in this fashion. We have
> asked
> the compilers of the ERIH to remove our journals' titles from their
> lists.
>
> Hanne Andersen (Centaurus)
> Roger Ariew & Moti Feingold (Perspectives on Science)
> A. K. Bag (Indian Journal of History of Science)
> June Barrow-Green & Benno van Dalen (Historia mathematica)
> Keith Benson (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences)
> Marco Beretta (Nuncius)
> Michel Blay (Revue d'Histoire des Sciences)
> Cornelius Borck (Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
> Geof Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (Science, Technology and Human  
> Values)
> Massimo Bucciantini & Michele Camerota (Galilaeana: Journal of  
> Galilean
> Studies)
> Jed Buchwald and Jeremy Gray (Archive for History of Exacft Sciences)
> Vincenzo Cappelletti & Guido Cimino (Physis)
> Roger Cline (International Journal for the History of Engineering &
> Technology)
> Stephen Clucas & Stephen Gaukroger (Intellectual History Review)
> Hal Cook & Anne Hardy (Medical History)
> Leo Corry, Alexandre M?traux & J?rgen Renn (Science in Context)
> D.Diecks & J.Uffink (Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
> Physics)
> Brian Dolan & Bill Luckin (Social History of Medicine)
> Hilmar Duerbeck & Wayne Orchiston (Journal of Astronomical History &
> Heritage)
> Moritz Epple, Mikael H?rd, Hans-J?rg Rheinberger & Volker Roelcke  
> (NTM:
> Zeitschrift f?r
> Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin)
> Steven French (Metascience)
> Willem Hackmann (Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society)
> Bosse Holmqvist (Lychnos) Paul Farber (Journal of the History of
> Biology)
> Mary Fissell & Randall Packard (Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
> Robert Fox (Notes & Records of the Royal Society)
> Jim Good (History of the Human Sciences)
> Michael Hoskin (Journal for the History of Astronomy)
> Ian Inkster (History of Technology)
> Marina Frasca Spada (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)
> Nick Jardine (Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and
> Biomedical
> Sciences)
> Trevor Levere (Annals of Science)
> Bernard Lightman (Isis)
> Christoph L?thy (Early Science and Medicine)
> Michael Lynch (Social Studies of Science)
> Stephen McCluskey & Clive Ruggles (Archaeostronomy: the Journal of
> Astronomy in
> Culture)
> Peter Morris (Ambix)
> E. Charles Nelson (Archives of Natural History)
> Ian Nicholson (Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences)
> Iwan Rhys Morus (History of Science)
> John Rigden & Roger H Stuewer (Physics in Perspective)
> Simon Schaffer (British Journal for the History of Science)
> Paul Unschuld (Sudhoffs Archiv)
> Peter Weingart (Minerva)
> Stefan Zamecki (Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki)
>
> Viviane Quirke
> RCUK Academic Fellow in twentieth-century Biomedicine
> Secretary of the BSHS
> Centre for Health, Medicine and Society
> Oxford Brookes University
>
> http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/interpretationandmethods
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From jhuns at vt.edu  Sun Oct  5 10:16:08 2008
From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:16:08 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] journals under threat
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there is not a conversation there about this, it is the graduate  
student list for all science and technology studies on google  
groups.   I think you might find some discussion arising as the  
editorials of the journals appear, but as of yet, the two places there  
has been discussion has been on ph.d. design, which is a list that  
used to be about whether the nascent field of interdiscilinary design  
could have a research ph.d. and there has been some discussion on the  
vpiej, which is my institution's electronic journals list and one of  
the oldest lists on that topic.   as for your concerns below, they've  
not yet reared their head.  as a quick scan of the literature shows  
journal citation impact factors do not indicate anything in regard to  
the quality of the journal, and ranking journals in the field using  
any construction of the current quality of the journal doesn't really  
have any guaranteed indication of future value in the field, though  
granted some fields are more institutionalized and stable than others  
and with that institutionalization, you tend to have preserved  
hegemonic positions.
On Oct 5, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Dvora Yanow wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for posting this!  It is, indeed, very troubling -- and of  
> importance to those of us in fields other than science studies in  
> its various shapes/forms.
>
> It seems to me to be a potentially useful and creative way of  
> pushing back against such rating schemes, but I would like to hear  
> from the signatories what their thinking is about the effect of  
> having their journals de-listed.  If, e.g., departments are ranking  
> their staff and are themselves being ranked by deans and other  
> university administrators by publication records in these journals,  
> and even more, if such ranking is tied to state and other funding,  
> what will be the effect of de-listing?
>
> Before advocating for such an approach in other fields, I think it  
> would be important for all of us to have a clearer understanding of  
> the implications and (unintended) consequences.
>
> Could you post this query to whatever list you found the  
> announcement on?  Perhaps they could post a reply directly to this  
> list, via you or me.
>
> Dvora Yanow
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu on  
> behalf of jeremy hunsinger
> Sent: Tue 30-Sep-08 17:29
> To: DESIGN-RESEARCH at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; Language in the New Capitalism;  
> interpretation and methods group
> Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] journals under threat
>
> Sorry for x-posting, but I think people need to know this is likely
> going on in their field too.
>
> Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science,
> Technology and Medicine Editors
>
> We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being
> standardized,
> quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of science and
> technology must regard this as a fascinating and crucial practical,
> cultural and intellectual phenomenon.  Analysis of the roots and  
> meaning
> of metrics and metrology has been a preoccupation of much of the best
> work
> in our field for the past quarter century at least. As practitioners  
> of
> the
> interconnected disciplines that make up the field of science  
> studies  we
> understand how significant, contingent and uncertain can be the
> process of
> rendering nature and society in grades, classes and numbers.   We now
> confront a situation in which our own research work is being subjected
> to
> putatively precise accountancy by arbitrary and unaccountable  
> agencies.
> Some may already be aware of the proposed European Reference Index for
> the
> Humanities  (ERIH), an initiative originating with the European  
> Science
> Foundation. The ERIH is an attempt to grade journals in the  
> humanities -
> including "history and philosophy of science". The initiative  
> proposes a
> league table of academic journals, with premier, second and third
> divisions.
> According to the European Science Foundation, ERIH "aims initially to
> identify, and gain more visibility for, top-quality European  
> Humanities
> research published in academic journals in, potentially, all European
> languages". It is hoped "that ERIH will form the backbone of a
> fully-fledged research information system for the Humanities". What is
> meant, however, is that ERIH will provide funding bodies and other
> agencies in Europe and elsewhere with an allegedly  exact measure of
> research quality. In short, if research is published in a premier  
> league
> journal it will be recognized as first rate; if it appears somewhere  
> in
> the lower divisions, it will be rated (and not funded) accordingly.
> This
> initiative is entirely defective in conception and execution. Consider
> the
> major issues of accountability and transparency. The process of
> producing
> the graded list of  journals in science studies was overseen by a
> committee of four (the membership is currently listed at
> http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/research-
> infrastructures-including-erih/erih-governance-and-panels/erih-expert-
> panel s
> .html). This committee cannot be considered representative. It was not
> selected in consultation with any of the various disciplinary
> organizations that currently represent our field such as the European
> Association for the History of Medicine and Health,  the Society for  
> the
> Social History of Medicine, the British Society for the History of
> Science, the History of Science Society, the Philosophy of Science
> Association, the Society for the History of Technology or the Society
> for
> Social Studies of Science.  Journal editors were only belatedly  
> informed
> of the process and its relevant criteria or asked to provide any
> information regarding their publications.
> No indication hgiven of the means through which the list was compiled;
> nor
> how it might be  maintained in the future.  The ERIH depends on a
> fundamental misunderstanding of conduct and publication of  research
> in our
> field, and in the humanities in general. Journals' quality cannot be
> separated from their contents and their review processes. Great  
> research
> may be published anywhere and in any language. Truly ground-breaking
> work
> may be more likely to appear from marginal, dissident or unexpected
> sources, rather than from a well-established and entrenched  
> mainstream.
> Our journals are various, heterogeneous and distinct. Some are aimed
> at a
> broad, general and international readership, others are more  
> specialized
> in their content and implied audience. Their scope and readership say
> nothing about the quality of their intellectual content. The ERIH, on
> the
> other hand, confuses internationality with quality in a way that is
> particularly prejudicial to specialist and non-English language
> journals.
> In a recent report, the British Academy, with judicious  
> understatement,
> concludes that "the European Reference Index for the Humanities as
> presently conceived does not represent a reliable way in which metrics
> of
> peer-reviewed publications can be constructed" (Peer Review: the
> Challenges for the Humanities and Social Sciences, September  2007:
> http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/peer-review). Such exercises as ERIH  
> can
> become self- fulfilling prophecies. If such measures as ERIH are  
> adopted
> as metrics by funding and other agencies, then many in our field will
> conclude that they have little choice other than to limit their
> publications to journals in the premier division. We will sustain  
> fewer
> journals, much less diversity and impoverish our discipline. Along  
> with
> many others in our field, this Journal has concluded that we want no
> part
> of this dangerous and misguided exercise. This joint Editorial is  
> being
> published in journals across the fields of history of science and
> science
> studies as an expression of  our collective dissent and our refusal to
> allow our field to be managed and appraised in this fashion. We have
> asked
> the compilers of the ERIH to remove our journals' titles from their
> lists.
>
> Hanne Andersen (Centaurus)
> Roger Ariew & Moti Feingold (Perspectives on Science)
> A. K. Bag (Indian Journal of History of Science)
> June Barrow-Green & Benno van Dalen (Historia mathematica)
> Keith Benson (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences)
> Marco Beretta (Nuncius)
> Michel Blay (Revue d'Histoire des Sciences)
> Cornelius Borck (Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
> Geof Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (Science, Technology and Human  
> Values)
> Massimo Bucciantini & Michele Camerota (Galilaeana: Journal of  
> Galilean
> Studies)
> Jed Buchwald and Jeremy Gray (Archive for History of Exacft Sciences)
> Vincenzo Cappelletti & Guido Cimino (Physis)
> Roger Cline (International Journal for the History of Engineering &
> Technology)
> Stephen Clucas & Stephen Gaukroger (Intellectual History Review)
> Hal Cook & Anne Hardy (Medical History)
> Leo Corry, Alexandre M?traux & J?rgen Renn (Science in Context)
> D.Diecks & J.Uffink (Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
> Physics)
> Brian Dolan & Bill Luckin (Social History of Medicine)
> Hilmar Duerbeck & Wayne Orchiston (Journal of Astronomical History &
> Heritage)
> Moritz Epple, Mikael H?rd, Hans-J?rg Rheinberger & Volker Roelcke  
> (NTM:
> Zeitschrift f?r
> Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin)
> Steven French (Metascience)
> Willem Hackmann (Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society)
> Bosse Holmqvist (Lychnos) Paul Farber (Journal of the History of
> Biology)
> Mary Fissell & Randall Packard (Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
> Robert Fox (Notes & Records of the Royal Society)
> Jim Good (History of the Human Sciences)
> Michael Hoskin (Journal for the History of Astronomy)
> Ian Inkster (History of Technology)
> Marina Frasca Spada (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)
> Nick Jardine (Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and
> Biomedical
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From Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at  Wed Oct  8 03:23:00 2008
From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at (Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:23:00 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative
	researchthatiscomparative?
In-Reply-To: <003701c92602$f85b8fb0$9865fea9@D8LR3Q2J>
References: <f1d2d7152fcc8.48e5ed2e@mail.nyu.edu><5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E01368670@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl><f1d2c2fe2ccc5.48e6368d@mail.nyu.edu>
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Dear All,
thank you for all the references and I would indeed be happy to read more when it is published!
Kind regards,
Helga 



-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im Auftrag von Tamara Metze
Gesendet: Samstag, 04. Oktober 2008 11:24
An: 'interpretation and methods group'; 'interpretation and methods group'
Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative researchthatiscomparative?

Hi all,
I would be interested in such a panel. I have written a chapter on, what I
call, 'reflexive research design' that includes a comparative case study in
my dissertation (to be defended this spring hopefully). Together with Peri's
chapter, Flyvbjerg (2006) was a helpful source for me in thinking about
(comparative) case study research in interpretative analysis. Patton (1990)
(and indeed Yin) were also helpful for my argument. 
Best wishes,
Tamara

Flyvbjerg, B. (2006) Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Qualitative Inquiry, 12, 219-245

Patton, M. Q. (1990) Qualitative evaluation and research methods, Sage
Publications, Inc., Newburry Park

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Namens
Jennifer E Dodge
Verzonden: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 21:13
Aan: interpretation and methods group
Onderwerp: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?

Hi Dvora,

I haven't written about this explicitly in my methods chapter, but might
consider doing so since there seems to be a need for it.  If I do, I would
be happy to circulate it, but it won't happen until at least the spring. 

Is there anyone else out there doing comparative interpretive case studies?
Might be worth organizing a panel for APSA or IPA for next year to push this
forward.  Maybe Maria Jose would be interested?

Best,
Jennifer


Jennifer Dodge
Doctoral Candidate
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
  of Public Service
New York University
295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10012

office: 212-998-7493
home office: 718-493-2596
e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Dvora Yanow <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 10:17 am
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
To: interpretation and methods group
<interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu>

> Thanks, Jennifer!  This is very helpful.  Maria Jose Freitas, Peri 
> Schwartz-Shea, and I wrote an encyclopedia entry on case study in 
> political science last spring, and we - and in particular Maria Jose, 
> for her own dissertation research - went in search of publications 
> that might articulate an interpretive approach to comparative 
> analysis.  We came up empty-handed (and looking at the syllabi we 
> located for courses teaching case method was most depressing on this
score).
> 
> Does your methods chapter discuss this at length?  If so, would you 
> consider making it, or the relevant sections of it, available?
> 
> Dvora Yanow
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu 
> [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On 
> Behalf Of Jennifer E Dodge
> Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 16:00
> To: interpretation and methods group
> Cc: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> 
> Hi Helga,
> 
> I think your pointing to an interesting problem. A lot of interpretive 
> case studies are often single cases; and comparative cases seem to be 
> from a positive bent. It seems that it is challenging to do 
> comparative interpretive policy work becuase each case is such a world 
> unto itself. Having said that, I think comparative case studies are 
> very worth doing because they push the researcher to think about how 
> unique each case is or what the essence of the contribution is.
> 
> I'm doing comparative case studies for my dissertation, comparing 
> policy campaigns of two NGOs in envirionmental politics.  I haven't 
> found any referneces that explicitly use comparative interpretive 
> approaches, but here are two references that you might find useful to 
> share with your students:
> 
> Stake - an interpretivist approach to doing case analysis, and largely 
> develops a single-case approach (and isn't about policy per se); 
> Stake, R. (1995). The art of case research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.
> 
> Yin 2003 - a positivist approach to case analysis. Has good 
> descriptions of the logic of comparison. I have used this but adapted 
> it to Stake's interpretive approach (with a narrative twist).  Yin, R. 
> (there is a 2003 edition; 1994). Case study research: Design and 
> methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.
> 
> Hope this is helpful,
> Jennifer
> 
> 
> Jennifer Dodge
> Doctoral Candidate
> Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
>   of Public Service
> New York University
> 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.
> New York, NY 10012
> 
> office: 212-998-7493
> home office: 718-493-2596
> e-mail: jed234 at nyu.edu
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 6:44 am
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> 
> > Hi Dvora, well it is not so easy to explain; but I would like to see
> > if there is anyone applying interpretative methods to a comparative
> > case analysis (and spells it out).
> >
> > Maybe I explain the purpose of the question first: I am teaching a
> > comparative policy course. For this course I would like to make
> > students aware that there is not only the research question-
> > hypothesis-theory checking-variable defining way of doing comparative
> > research. However I have just realised that it is quite difficult to
> > find a short article that applies interpretative methods and analyses
> > more than one case and is not too difficult to read for students.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
> > Von: interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at listserv.cddc.vt.edu] Im
> > Auftrag von Dvora Yanow
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Oktober 2008 12:35
> > An: interpretation and methods group
> > Betreff: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research
thatiscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Hi, Helga.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Compares it with what?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dvora
> >
> > 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > [mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Helga.Puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> > Sent: vrijdag 3 oktober 2008 12:24
> > To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> > Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] interpretative research that
iscomparative?
> >
> > 
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > 
> >
> > I am looking for a reference to an article or book chapter that
> > compares interpretative research. Could anyone help with this?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Helga P?lzl
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> > ************************************
> >
> > Dr. Helga P?lzl
> >
> > Department for Political Science and Sociology
> >
> > University of Salzburg
> >
> > 
> >
> > Rudolfskai 42
> >
> > A-5020 Salzburg
> >
> > Phone: + 43 - 662 - 8044 - 6602
> >
> > Fax:       + 43 - 662 - 6389 - 6602
> >
> > email:   helga.puelzl at sbg.ac.at
> >
> > www.uni-salzburg.at
> >
> > 
> >
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Wed Oct  8 04:40:45 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:40:45 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] ECPR Theoretical Perspectives in Policy
	Analysis: call for papers
Message-ID: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E0136869B@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>

fyi, from ECPR, w/ apologies for cross-posting.
 
Dvora 
 
-----Original Message-----
CALL FOR PAPERS - Special issue of the Austrian Journal of Political Science (ranked in the ISI Social Sciences Citation Index)
We welcome paper proposals (in English or German) for the upcoming special issue of the Austrian Journal of Political Science 4/2009: Practicing Theory; Theorizing Practice.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 19 December 2008
Theory is often understood in opposition to practice, as a reflection upon practice and the empirical world. However, when scientists work with theories, theorizing becomes itself a practice and therefore worthy of analysis. Until now, political science has lacked a deeper reflection about the influence of the concrete use of theory in political research and the conditions for its application, as well as about the instances in which theory and practice intersect. This special issue provides an opportunity to start filling this gap.
In this special issue, theory is thus not understood as something rigid and self-contained, but rather as developing from its dynamic interaction with practice, be it through its concrete application in research projects or as a product of political action itself. We therefore invite contributions dealing with issues related to the concrete application of theories as well as contributions that shed light on the relationship between political theories and political action. We welcome both conceptual articles, as well as articles that examine examples of the application of theories in political research. In particular, we welcome contributions that address the following themes:
*	Theory and ideology 
*	Theory and objectivity 
*	Theory as an object of analysis 
*	Theory as an instrument of research 
*	Theory as innovation 
For details, please see the document attached.
Please send your paper proposals (max. 350 words) until 19 December 2008 to  <mailto:anna.durnova at univie.ac.at> anna.durnova at univie.ac.at,  <mailto:julia.mourao.permoser at univie.ac.at> julia.mourao.permoser at univie.ac.at or thomas.koenig at univie.ac.at . The deadline for the complete manuscripts will be 19 June 2009. 
 
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Life- Science Governance Research Platform
Departement of Political Science
University of Vienna
Universitaetsstrasse 7 / 2. Stock
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Wed Oct  8 09:00:44 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:00:44 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] article of interest on disability
	research
Message-ID: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E013686AB@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>

Posting for Kara Heitz:

In regards to your student who was looking for citations about doing research as a disabled individual, I coincidentally just came across the following article while looking up something else in the same journal. While the main focus is on collaborative work between disabled and non-disabled researchers, the first part of the article does discuss and cite literature on issued faced by disabled researchers doing social research:

Tregaskis, Claire and Dan Goodley. "Disability Research by Disabled and Non‐Disabled People: Towards a Relational Methodology of Research Production." International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Dec2005, Vol. 8 Issue 5, p363-374.



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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Wed Oct  8 12:23:32 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:23:32 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] FW: FW:  journals under threat
Message-ID: <5286BEEC21FADA47A24AA92D8BC9270E013686B8@fswmail01.scw.vu.nl>

Colleagues,

Because this matter of ranking journals is so important to the future of scholarship (i.e., to efforts to control and discipline it), and because the solution of the editors of those science studies journals (to ask that their journals be removed from the ranking list) was so creative, I sought out some more information.

At the risk of overloading your emailboxes, I am attaching the response I received with its attachments.

Dvora Yanow

-----Original Message-----
From: S.J. Schaffer [mailto:sjs16 at hermes.cam.ac.uk]On Behalf Of S.J. Schaffer
Sent: zondag 5 oktober 2008 17:18
To: Dvora Yanow
Subject: Re: FW: [Interpretationandmethods] journals under threat

Dear Dvora,

Thank you for your message. I am delighted you saw a copy of the joint
editorial from editors of journals in history of science, medicine and
technology.

The ERIH project is a very major threat: it will damage scholarship in
learned journals; and it will subject that scholarship to severe and
arbitrary audit. The principle of grading journals is unacceptable.

Two ends can be fulfilled by demands for withdrawal made by the editors of
a large number of journals, including those that ERIH grades as very
strong: such withdrawal will counter the chance of using ERIH effectively
in appraisal or audit, since reputable journals will not appear in its
lists; and such withdrawal may halt ERIH entirely, since the absence of so
many journals renders the lists meaningless.

I attach here a recent message written in response to our editorial by
members of the steering committee of ERIH. This response fails completely
to address any of our concerns. The standing committee bluntly insists that
its lists will not be used in audit. But, as you rightly point out, they
will be and already are being used in this way.

I also attach here a recent message sent by a very large number of
humanities learned societies in the UK to the UK Arts and Humanities
Research Council that directly addresses our concerns. This message
requests general withdrawal from ERIH as its stands; and points out that
the aims of the project would be well met by reinforcing and supporting our
peer review systems.

I hope you find these comments helpful; and I strongly encourage you and
your colleagues to join this campaign.


With best wishes,   Simon Schaffer


On Oct 5 2008, Dvora Yanow wrote:

>FW: [Interpretationandmethods] journals under threat
>
>
> Dear Simon: Jeremy Hunsinger gave me your address. He posted the threat
> notice to a list I manage; below is my query, tho here are the relevant
> paras: It seems to me to be a potentially useful and creative way of
>> pushing back against such rating schemes, but I would like to hear
>> from the signatories what their thinking is about the effect of
>> having their journals de-listed.  If, e.g., departments are ranking
>> their staff and are themselves being ranked by deans and other
>> university administrators by publication records in these journals,
>> and even more, if such ranking is tied to state and other funding,
>> what will be the effect of de-listing?
>>> Before advocating for such an approach in other fields, I think it
>> would be important for all of us to have a clearer understanding of
>> the implications and (unintended) consequences.
>>Anything you can add about this?

> Yours, Dvora Yanow 
> -----Original Message----- On Oct 5, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Dvora Yanow wrote:
>> Jeremy,
>>> Thanks for posting this!  It is, indeed, very troubling -- and of
>> importance to those of us in fields other than science studies in
>> its various shapes/forms.
>>> It seems to me to be a potentially useful and creative way of
>> pushing back against such rating schemes, but I would like to hear
>> from the signatories what their thinking is about the effect of
>> having their journals de-listed.  If, e.g., departments are ranking
>> their staff and are themselves being ranked by deans and other
>> university administrators by publication records in these journals,
>> and even more, if such ranking is tied to state and other funding,
>> what will be the effect of de-listing?
>>> Before advocating for such an approach in other fields, I think it
>> would be important for all of us to have a clearer understanding of
>> the implications and (unintended) consequences.
>>> Could you post this query to whatever list you found the
>> announcement on?  Perhaps they could post a reply directly to this
>> list, via you or me.
>>> Dvora Yanow

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From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:51:42 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Fwd: UAP announcement
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From B.Hendrikx at fm.ru.nl  Thu Oct  9 07:31:55 2008
From: B.Hendrikx at fm.ru.nl (Bas Hendrikx)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:31:55 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Seminar series on 'Reflexive
	Methodology' at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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*apologies for cross-postings*

Dear all,

We would like to invite you to our seminar series on

Reflexive Methodology

A lecture series on *doing* post-positivist research
(http://www.ru.nl/socgeo/content/currentprogramme.html)

Organised by the *Alexander Von Humboldt Lecture Series*, Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands

in cooperation with:
*
Prof. Andrew Sayer*, on critical realism (12-14 November 2008)
*Dr. Mike Crang*, on doing ethnography* *(25-28 November 2008)
*Prof. Annemarie Mol*, on actor-network theory* *(5 - 6 February 2009)
*Prof. Jacob Torfing*, on post-structural discourse theory* *(16-20 March
2009)

reflexivemethodology at fm.ru.nl

The research programme Governance and Places at the Radboud University of
Nijmegen cordially invites you to our Alexander Von Humboldt Lecture and
Seminar Series on the theme of 'REFLEXIVE METHODOLOGY'.

*Short programme description*:
(for more details please have a look at our website:
http://www.ru.nl/socgeo/content/currentprogramme.html )

What are the possible avenues for applying a reflexive methodological
approach? How can we build our research agendas on post-positivist
philosophical foundations and preserve scientific rigour and transparency at
the same time? What is the role of our own political positions in the
research process? It is these questions that stand out in the Von Humboldt
lecture series on 'Reflexive Methodology'. Prominent proponents aligned with
specific sub-strands of post-positivism are invited to discuss the hows of
reflexive methodology. In the Reflexive Methodology series we will address
(relational) *ethnography*, *critical realism*, *post-structuralist
discourse analysis* and *the analysis of actor-networks* in particular.

*Cordially,

Bas Hendrikx

Programme details*
(for more info please send an e-mail to reflexivemethodology at fm.ru.nl )
*12 November 2008*
*Who's afraid of critical social science? **Prof Andrew Sayer*, Lancaster
University
17:30 - 19:30h Venue: Thomas van Aquinostraat 4.0.05, radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(free entry)

13 Nov 2008 10:45 ? 12:30 Research Seminar
14 Nov 2008 10:45 - 12:30 PhD Seminar/ workshop
(limited space available, sign up via reflexivemethodology at fm.ru.nl)

*26 November 2008 *
*Ethnographic Vision: Objectification, Subjection and Reflection* *Dr. Mike
Crang*, Durham University
17:30 - 19:30h Venue: Thomas van Aquinostraat 4.0.05, radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(free entry)

27 Nov 2008 10:45 - 12:30 Research Seminar
28 Nov 2008 10:45 ? 12:30 PhD Seminar
(limited space available, sign up via reflexivemethodology at fm.ru.nl)

*5 February 2009*
*What methods do. Evocative questions and difficult audiences **Prof.
Annemarie Mol*, Twente University
17:30 - 19:30h Venue: Thomas van Aquinostraat 4.0.05 (venue tbc), radboud
University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(free entry)

5 Feb 2009  Research seminar
6 Feb 2009  PhD seminar
(limited space available, sign up via reflexivemethodology at fm.ru.nl)

*17 March 2009*
*How to measure and improve the democratic anchorage of governance networks
**Prof. Jacob Torfing*, Roskilde University
17:30 - 19:30h Venue: Thomas van Aquinostraat 4.0.05, radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(free entry)

18 Mar 2009 10:45 - 12:30 Research Seminar
19 Mar 2009 10:45 ? 12:30 PhD Seminar
(limited space available, sign up via reflexivemethodology at fm.ru.nl)


-- 
Bas Hendrikx

PhD Candidate
Research program "Governance and Places"
dept. Human Geography and Spatial Planning
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3.2.14
Radboud University Nijmegen
P.O.Box 9108, 6500 HK Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Tel. +31-(0)24-3613055
Fax +31-(0)24-3611841
Personal Homepage http://www.ru.nl/fm/hendrikx/
E-mail address: b.hendrikx at fm.ru.nl
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Sat Oct 11 17:34:19 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:34:19 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] FW: Call For Contributors to Case Study
	Encycl
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From DBConklin at aol.com  Sun Oct 12 10:06:29 2008
From: DBConklin at aol.com (DBConklin at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:06:29 EDT
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] FW: Call For Contributors to Case
	Study Encycl
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If you are still looking, I can do the entry on Action Research.
 
David Conklin
 
 
In a message dated 10/11/2008 5:33:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl writes:

Colleagues,

Another note from the editor of this Sage  encyclopedia, on case study 
research.

Replies, please, as noted below  (and not to the list or to me; I'm just the 
messenger :) .

Dvora  Yanow


-----Original Message-----
From: albert.mills at smu.ca [_mailto:albert.mills at smu.ca_ 
(mailto:albert.mills at smu.ca) ]
Sent: Sat  11-Oct-08 22:43


Hi everyone, due to varying circumstances we have  lost two of our 
contributors at this late stage.  They were going to  contribute the following entries, 
which are now available. I f you are  interested in submitting one of these 
entries or can put us in touch with  anyone who may please contact our Managing 
Editor, Marion Van Tassel -  marionvt at eastlink.ca

Action Research
Critical  Theory
Hermeneutics
Organizational  Culture.
Pracademic
Storyselling
Second Generation Case  Study
Third Generation Case Study
Match-Pair Case Study

Best  regards

Albert J.  Mills
(albert.mills at smu.ca)







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From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:14:35 +0200
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From jhuns at vt.edu  Tue Oct 14 00:35:24 2008
From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:35:24 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Fwd: Preliminary Call for Papers:
	Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: frankfischer24 at aol.com
> Date: October 13, 2008 12:21:44 AM GMT+02:00
> To: tps at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
> Cc: tps-owner at listserv.cddc.vt.edu
> Subject: Preliminary Call for Papers: Interpretive Policy Analysis  
> Conference
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 4th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis:
> Discourse and Power in Critical Policy Research
>
> Dates: June 25-27, 2009
> Location: University of Kassel, Germany.
> Call for Papers Deadline:< /SPAN> 15 January 2009
> All Inquiries to: moellmann at uni-kassel.de
>
> Organizing Committee
> Christoph Scherrer, University of Kassel (Germany)
> Helen Schwenken, University of Kassel (Germany)
> Christian M?llmann, University of Kassel (Germany)
> Frank Fischer, Rutgers University (USA) and University of Kassel  
> (Germany)
>
> Methodology Workshops Organizing Committee
> Barbara Dickhaus, University of Kassel (Germany)
> Katharina Paul, Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL)
> Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit (NL)
> Steven Griggs, University of Birmingham (UK)
> Henk Wagenaar, Leiden University (NL)
>
> Advisory Board
> Frank Fischer, Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA)/Kassel  
> University (Germany)
> Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna (Austria)
> Steven Griggs, University of Birmingham (UK)
> Maarten Hajer, Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL)
> Navdeep Mathur, India Institute of Management (Ahmedabad)
> Henk Wagenaar, Leiden Universiteit (NL)
> Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, NL)
>
> Keynote Speakers (tbc)
> Thomas Lemke
> Mary E. Hawkesworth
> Ngai-Ling Sum
> John Dryzek
>
>
> The interpretive orientation in the social sciences is a  
> methodological perspective that has evolved to challenge mainstream  
> empiricism and scientism. It is, as such, the basic cornerstone of a  
> critical approach to policy analysis. Attentive to human  
> subjectivity and social meaning, it places policy research in its  
> relevant political and historical contexts. This 4th conference will  
> focus broadly on discourse and interpretive methods in critical  
> policy analysis, with particular emphasis on the relationship of  
> discourse to power.
>
> Conference papers might engage one or more of the following themes:
> ?        Analytic and empirical case studies of discourse and power,  
> especially in relation to policy practices and governance, both  
> local and global.
> ?        Interpretive case studies from particular policy issue  
> arenas, both local and global (e.g., political economy, global  
> policy, global inequalities, gender relations, environmental  
> policymaking, governance, bio-politics, and immigration policy).
> ?      &nb sp; Interpretive methodological issues in doing critical  
> policy analysis (e.g., reflexivity in policy-analytic practices;  
> issues in using new recording technologies; getting, and using,  
> feedback from ?informants? evaluating software programs).
> ?        Clarification of interpretive approaches such as discourse  
> analysis, narrative analysis, framing, rhetoric, and metaphor.
> ?        The contribution of a particular theoretical or  
> philosophical approach to policy discourse, power, and critical  
> policy analysis, including the emerging focus on global policy.
> Although the conference is open to all topic relevant to discourse  
> and interpretation in policy-oriented research, special attention  
> will given to power through a range of substantive topics, such as  
> participatory governance and deliberative policymaking, gender  
> relations and cultural politics, social and political inequalities,  
> political economy and global policy. As a theme, discourse and power  
> will be the prominently featured in the plenary sessions and  
> numerous panels.
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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:41:39 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] 1st reminder: ECPR 2009 Lisbon Workshop
	on Framing
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From WJKELLPRO at aol.com  Sat Oct 18 18:30:41 2008
From: WJKELLPRO at aol.com (WJKELLPRO at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:30:41 EDT
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] RESPECT AS A NATURAL ELEMENT OF SOCIAL
	SCIENCE METHOD
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Hi  All! 
My article on Michael Polanyi?s theory respect as a  natural part of all 
social science method has just been published in Tradition  and Discovery.  TAD is 
the official  peer reviewed journal of the Polanyi Society.   
Neopositivists are still trying to hide their personal values behind a  
facade of ?value neutrality,? while pretending to strive for the Holy Grail of  ?
objective knowledge.?  Polanyi was  known in the 1960?s for exposing these 
pretences in the natural sciences.  However, the implications of his work  for 
the social sciences was neither noticed nor articulated until  now. 
His  novel theory of  evolution provides a rock-solid philosophical grounding 
upon which a  ?values-based? unified theory of social science methodology 
can be built  up.  Kuhn drew his theory of  scientific revolution from Polanyi.  
Polanyi?s paradigm for values-based social sciences is truly ?change we  can 
believe in.?  
TAD is an Open Access journal.  For free viewing and downloading go to: 
_http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/TAD%20WEB%20ARCHIVE/TAD35-1/TAD35
-1-fnl-pg8-32-pdf.pdf_ 
(http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/TAD%20WEB%20ARCHIVE/TAD35-1/TAD35-1-fnl-pg8-32-pdf.pdf)  
William J. Kelleher, Ph.D. 
PS 
Please pass this on.  I would  like everyone  who is interested in  
interpretive political science, or interpretive social science methods, or the  history 
of science to know about Polanyi?s  work.
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Wed Oct 22 10:33:26 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:33:26 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] CFP:  Just Reason
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From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:26:38 +0200
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From ahkrogh at ruc.dk  Mon Oct 27 07:54:32 2008
From: ahkrogh at ruc.dk (Andreas Hagedorn Krogh)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:54:32 +0100
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Ph.D course: "Governance Networks:
	Theory, Practice and Methods"
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Thu Oct 30 08:58:22 2008
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:58:22 +0100
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] FW: The World Social Science Forum 2009
	- Bergen, Norway
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fyi
 
Dvora Yanow
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Hilde Kjerland [mailto:Hilde.Kjerland at rokkan.uib.no]
Sent: donderdag 30 oktober 2008 12:54
Subject: The World Social Science Forum 2009 - Bergen, Norway
 
The first World Social Science Forum will be held in Bergen, Norway in May 10-12 2009. 
 <http://www.unesco.org/ngo/issc/index.htm> The International Social Science Council (ISSC) has decided to arrange the first World Social Science Forum in Norway, in partnership with  <http://www.uib.no> the University of Bergen and  <http://www.rokkan.uib.no> the Rokkan Centre.

Increasingly natural phenomena - global warming, climate change, disasters - are pushing themselves up on the international agenda. We know that we cannot change the laws of nature. But we also have learned that the way the laws of nature work in the world is triggered by human actions, such as energy use, emissions and pollution. 

Hence our growing knowledge of natural phenomena must be matched by knowledge of social phenomena - knowledge of our physical world must be matched by knowledge of our social world.

The World Social Science Forum has a double mission:
1) to encourage research and to exploit its results - to produce better knowledge and to apply it more effectively. 
2) to engage with the other sciences for purposes of expanding our common understanding of how things work and how to make change happen

During the Forum, there will be three types of sessions: Plenary, parallel (invited speakers) and poster sessions (deadline for abstracts February 1, 2009).
 
Program and profile
The WSSF will stretch over two and a half days (May 10-12, 2009).
The conference will start on May 10 with an opening ceremony, and a Keynote Speech by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, Harvard University.

Later this day the World Social Science Report will be presented and the  <http://www.rokkan.uib.no/wssf/files/SRP_Nominations.pdf> Stein Rokkan Prize awarded. (The deadline for submission of nominations for the Stein Rokkan Prize is December 1 2008.) 
Plenaries:
May 11 2009
"One Social Science - or Many?"
Speaker: Professor Jon Elster, Columbia University and Coll?ge de France

"Knowing Better - and Doing Worse? What social science can provide for policy makers",
Jonas Gahr Stoere, Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs

May 12 2009
"Can Science Save Us? The Challenges for the Social Sciences from Climate Change",
Rajendra Pachauri, The Chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Delegate fees:
2008:
OECD NOK 1800 (euro 225)
NON OECD NOK 800 (euro 100)
Students  NOK 400 (euro 50)
2009:
OECD NOK 2200 (euro 275)
NON OECD NOK 1200 (euro 150)
Students  NOK 600 (euro 75)

Read more about the conference, and register here: www.rokkan.uib.no/wssf

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