🗓️ Lecture 07: Case studies
🎯 Content and goals
- You understand what a case study design is, when to best choose a case-oriented approach, and the central elements of the research design.
- You know what a case is and can explain the main strategies of case selection.
- You understand the comparative method and its different types.
- You can critically discuss this method in comparison to other research methods.
🖥️ Lecture Slides
The slides for this lecture will be made available here.
📚 Mandatory Reading
No mandatory reading for this lecture.
🏆 Further Readings
✍️ Exercises and coursework
To be announced.
If you have questions or problems, please post them in the Moodle forum.
References
Beach, D. and Pedersen, R. B. (2016) Causal case study methods: Foundations and guidelines for comparing, matching, and tracing, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Yin, R. K. (2018) Case study research and applications: Design and methods, Sixth edition., SAGE.