Interpretive Research Design：Concepts and Processes

"Research design is fundamentally central to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. This book is a practical, short, simple, and authoritative examination of the concepts and issues in interpretive research design, looking across this approach's methods of generating and analyzing data. It is meant to set the stage for the more "how-to" volumes that will come later in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods, which will look at specific methods and the designs thatthey require. It will, however, engage some very practical issues, such as ethical considerations and the structure of research proposals. Interpretive research design requires a high degree of flexibility, where the researcher is more likely to think of"hunches" to follow than formal hypotheses to test. Yanow and Schwartz-Shea address what research design is and why it is important, what interpretive research is and how it differs from quantitative and qualitative research in the positivist traditions,how to design interpretive research, and the sections of a research proposal and report"--

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. Dvora Yanow is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and in the Communication Science Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, at Wageningen University. Together they are co-editors of Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn and created and run the "Methods Cafe" at both the American Political Science Association and Western Political Science Association annual meetings.