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A Case for Cases

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  • Peter Abell

    (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, p.abell@lse.ac.uk)

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When case studies are constructed as narratives, then causal explanation can be achieved without either comparison or generalization. Narratives provide paths of causal links on a chronology of actions or events. The links, in turn, can be studied as Bayesian inferences generating Bayesian narratives. The causal paths in a narrative have a Boolean structure.

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  • Peter Abell, 2009. "A Case for Cases," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 38(1), pages 38-70, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:somere:v:38:y:2009:i:1:p:38-70
    DOI: 10.1177/0049124109339372
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