PSC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Overdetermination, Ethnocentrism, Critical Thinking
30 Jan 2017
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Follow the evidence and interpret it honestly. Logics of the comparative method: most similar and most different cases. The main independent variable(s) (ivs) also vary. Example: government responses to human trafficking in the netherlands and. The dv and iv(s) should not vary. Selecting on the dv can be considered a flaw. Specific space, specific period of time, specific issue (phenomenon or event) Comparing to other cases-or-the comparative context (lim 2010, 49) Falsifies one or main claims of theory. Hard case (i. e. , should falsify one or more claims, but analysis shows it reflects the theoretical claims) Avoid a case that leads to overdetermination (56) Use the same rules as a case study. The observations are located within different time periods. Hence, a within-case comparison is a case study + binary comparison. Similar to binary analysis, but with one or more additional cases. Same rules as a case study or binary analysis. Able to generalize better than non-large-n methods.
