Qualitative and Archival Methods Reading List

PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

Causation, Explanation, and Inference
Gabriel Almond and Stephen Genco, Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics.
World Politics. Vol.29 no.4 (July 1977): 489-522.
Paul W. Holland, Statistics and Causal Inference, Journal of the American
Statistical Association, Vol. 81, No. 396 (Dec 1986), p. 945-960.
Henry E. Brady, Causation and Explanation in Social Science, In the Oxford
Handbook of Political Methodology, Chapter 10.
Peter Hall, Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Research, In
James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer eds. 2003. Comparative Historical
Analysis in the Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press.
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Indianapolis: Hackett
Publishing, 1993. pp. 39-64.
Carl G. Hempel, The Function of General Laws in History. In Michael Martin and
Lee C. McIntyre eds. Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 1994. pp.43-54.
Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1978. Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-114 Theoretical Methods in Social
History. New York: Academic Press, Inc.
Complex causation
J.L. Mackie, Causes and Conditions, American Philosophical Quarterly, vol 2
(1965), p. 245-264.
F.A. Hayek. 1994. The Theory of Complex Phenomena, In Michael Martin and Lee
C. McIntyre eds. Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science. MIT Press, pp.5570.
Charles Ragin. Chapters 2, 6, 7 and 8, The Comparative Method. University of
California, 1989 Intentional Causation and Interpretation
Davidson, Donald. 1963. Chapter on Actions, Reasons, Causes in Essays on
Actions and Events. Oxford University Press.
Max Weber, Economy and Society, Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich eds. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1978. pp.3-22.
Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science, in Bryan Wilson ed. Rationality (1986),
1-17.
RESEARCH DESIGN
Adcock, Robert and David Collier. 2001. Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard
for Qualitative and Quantitative Research. APSR, 95:3, pp. 529-46.
Bennett, Andrew and Colin Elman. 2006a. Complex Casual Relations and Case
Study Methods:the Example of Path Dependence. Political Analysis, 14, pp.250-67.
Brady, Henry, and David Collier. 2010. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools,
Shared Standards. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd edition.
Collier, David and James Mahoney. 1996. Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in
Qualitative Research. World Politics, 49, pp. 56-91.
Diamond, Jared and James Robinson, eds. 2010. Natural Experiments of History.
Harvard UP

 Geddes, Barbara 1990. How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get:
Selection Bias in Comparative Politics. Political Analysis, 2 (1), pp.131-50.
George, Alexander L and Andrew Bennett. 2005. Chapters 1, 3, and 10, Case Studies
and Theory Development in the Social Sciences: MIT.
Kalyvas, Stathis. 2006. Appendix A. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Lieberson, Stanley. 1991. Small Ns and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the
Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases. Social
Forces, 70 (2), pp. 307-320.
Lieberman, Evan S. 2005. Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for
Comparative Research. American Political Science Review, 99:3, pp. 535-42.
Mahoney, James. 2010. After KKV. The New Methodology of Qualitative Research.
World Politics 62, no. 1 ( January 2010), 12047
Mahoney, James and Dietrich Rueschemeyer eds. 2003. Chapters 9 and 10.
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press
Mahoney, James and Gary Goertz. 2006. A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting
Quantitative and Qualitative Research. Political Analysis, 14, pp. 227-49.
Przeworski, Adam, and Henry Teune. 1970. The Logic of Comparative Social
Inquiry, New York: Wiley.
Sekhon, Jasjeet S. 2004. Quality Meets Quantity: Case Studies, Conditional
Probability, and Counterfactuals. Perspectives on Politics 2(2): 281-93.
Snyder, Richard. 2001. Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method.
Studies in Comparative International Development, 36 (1), pp. 93-110.
FIELD RESEARCH METHODS
Aunger, Robert. 1994. Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: Food
avoidance in the Ituri forest, Zaire. Ethnology, 33, pp. 65-99.
Bernard, H. Russell. 2002. Research Methods in Anthropology. Qualitative and
Quantitative approaches: Altamira Press.
Dewalt, Kathleen M. and Billie R. Dewalt. 2002. Participant Observation: A Guide
for Fieldworkers: Alta Mira.
Fenno, Richard. 1978. Appendix- Notes on Method: Participant Observation, in
Home Style: House Members in their Districts: Little, Brown, and Co., pp. 249-95.
Fujii, Lee Ann. 2010. AThe Truth in Lies: Evaluating Testimonies of War and
Genocide in Rwanda.@ Journal of Peace Research.
Lofland, John, David Snow, Leon Anderson, and Lyn Lofland. 2006. Analyzing
Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth.
Ryan, Gary W and H. Russell Bernard. 2003. Data Management and Analysis
Methods, in Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. Norman K Denzin
and Yvonna S. Lincoln eds: Sage, pp. 259-309.
Schatz , Edward, ed. 2009. Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 13. Political
Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. University of
Chicago Press.
Sluka, Jeffrey A. 2007. Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous
Anthropology in Belfast, in Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader.

 Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Jeffrey A Sluka eds: Blackwell, pp. 259-70.

Van Mannen, Jon. 1988. Tales of the Field. University of Chicago Press.
Wood, Elisabeth. 2008. Field Research, in The Handbook of Comparative Politics.
Carles Boix and Susan Stokes eds: Oxford.
FIELD RESEARCH
Anderson, Elijah. 2000. Code of the street: decency, violence, and the moral life of
the inner city. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Ashforth, Adam. 2005. Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Bourgois, Philippe. 2003. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio:
Cambridge.
Burawoy, Michael. 1982. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process
Under Monopoly Capitalism: University of Chicago Press.
Geertz, Clifford. Notes on the Balinese Cockfight in The Interpretation of Cultures,
Basic Books, 1973.
Graetz, Michael J. and Ian Shapiro. 2005. Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over
Taxing Inherited Wealth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Scott, James C. 1986. Weapons of the Weak: Yale University Press.
Wedeen, Lisa. 1999. Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in
Contemporary Syria. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Kaufman, Herbert. 2006. The forest ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior. RFF
Press. [originally published 1967, 2006 edition includes new foreword and
afterword]
Wood, Elisabeth Jean. 2003. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El
Salvador. New York: Cambridge University Press.
ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
1979. The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of
Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the
Protection of the Human Subjects of Research.
2005. Guide for Investigators. Human Subjects Committee. Yale University.
2008. Symposium: Protecting Human Research Participants, IRBs, and Political
Science Redux. PS: Political Science and Politics, 61:3, pp. 475-507.
Jaarsma, Sjorerd ed. 2002. Handle With Care. Ownership and Control of
Ethnographic Materials: Pittsburgh.
Kelman, Herbert. 1972. The Rights of the Subject in Social Research: An analysis in
terms of Relative Power and Legitimacy. American Psychologist, 27:11, pp.9891016.
ARCHIVAL METHODS
Bloch, Marc. 1954. The Historians Craft. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Hill, Michael R. 1993. Archival strategies and techniques. Newbury Park: Sage.
Howell, Martha and Walter Prevenier. 2001. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction
to Historical Methods. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Novick, Peter. 1988. That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the
American Historical Profession: Cambridge University Press.

 White, Hayden. 1975. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century

Europe: Johns Hopkins University Press. Introduction (pp. 1-42)
Trachtenberg, Marc. 2006. The Craft of International History. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2006.
Greenstein, Fred I. and Richard H. Immerman. 1992. What Did Eisenhower Tell
Kennedy About Indochina? The Politics of Misperception, Journal of American
History, Vol. 79, No. 2
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Allison, Graham, The Essence of Decision (1999) US National Holocaust Museum,
Transcript of the Ordinary Men/Hitlers Willing Executioners Debate
1996, http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/occasional/199601/paper.pdf
Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final
Solution in Poland (New York, Harper, 1992)
EH Carr, What is History (Penguin) Chapter on Weimar foreign policy.
Daniel Goldhagen, Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Final
Solution (Knopf, 1996)
Michael Ray Hill, Archival Strategies and Techniques (Sage 1992). An introductory
how-to guide.
Marcus Kreuzer. 2010 Historical Knowledge and Quantitative Analysis: The Case of
the Origins of Proportional Representation. American Political Science Review Vol.
104, No. 2.
And the response: Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice. 2010. Coevolution of Capitalism and
Political Representation - The Choice of Electoral Systems, American Political
Science Review. **
Taeku Lee, Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the
Civil Rights Era (U Chicago Press).
Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen (Stanford, 1976)
James Tong, Disorder Under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty
(Stanford, 1991)
DATA AND CODING
Angus Campbell et al., The American Voter (1960), ch. 10 (The Formation of Issue
Concepts and Partisan Change).
Robert A. Dahl, Who Governs? (1961), Book III (Patterns of Influence),
Appendixes A-C
Richard F. Fenno, Jr., Congressmen in Committees (1973), Introduction and chs. 1-3.
Roberto Franzosi. 2009. Chapters 1 and 2. Quantitative Narrative Analysis
(Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, #162). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage
John Gerring, Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996 (1998), chs. 1, 3, Appendix
Jennifer Hochschild, Whats Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice
(1981), chs. 1-3, Appendix B
Robert E. Lane, Political Ideology (1962), Introduction, Section I, Appendix A
Mayhew, David. Divided We Govern (New Haven: Yale University Press), chap. 4.
Wilkinson, Steven, Votes and Violence (Cambridge 2004) Appendix A

 Przeworski, Alvarez, Limongi & Cheibub. 2000. Chapter 1 (including appendices).

Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the
World, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press, 2000
COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Bates, Robert H., Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry R.
Weingast eds. 1998. Analytic Narratives. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bensel, Richard Franklin. 1984. Sectionalism and American Political Development,
1880-1980. The University of Wisconsin Press.
Braudel, Fernand. 2005 [1958]. The Longue Dure. In Historical Methods in the
Social Sciences, Volume II: Foundations of Historical-Sociological Inquiry, ed. J.A.
Hall and J.M. Bryant. London: Sage, pp. 243-274.
Gorski, Philip S. 2003. The disciplinary revolution: Calvinism and the rise of the state
in early modern Europe: University of Chicago Press
Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson (2002): Business Power and Social Policy:
Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State. Politics & Society, 30
(2), pp. 277-325.
Swenson, Peter. 2004. Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions, and the
Regulatory Welfare State in the United States and Sweden. Studies in American
Political Development, 18 (1), pp. 1-29.
Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson. 2004. Varieties of Capitalist Interest and
Capitalist Power: A Response to Swenson. Studies in American Political
Development, 18 (2), pp. 186-195.
Swenson, Peter. 2004. Yes, and Comparative Analysis, Too: Rejoinder to Hacker and
Pierson. Studies in American Political Development, 18 (2), pp. 196-200.
Luebbert, Gregory. 1987. Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe.
World Politics 39(4), pp. 449-478.
Mahoney, James and Dietrich Rueschemeyer eds. 2003. Chapters by Pierson, Gould,
and Katznelson Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, Cambridge
University Press.
March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen. 1984. The New Institutionalism: Organizational
Factors in Political Life. American Political Science Review, 78: 734-49.
Marx, Karl. 1852 (1979). The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (excerpt),
in: Robert C. Tucker ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: Norton, pp. 594-617.
Mayhew, David. 2005. War and American Politics. Perspectives on Politics.
Orren, Karen and Stephen Skowronek. 1994. Beyond the Iconography of Order:
Notes for a New Institutionalism. In The Dynamics of American Politics.
Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds. Bolder: Westview.
Orren, Karen. 1992. Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in
the United States. Cambridge.
Padgett, John and Christopher Ansell. 1993. Robust Action and the Rise of the
Medici, 1400-1434.American Journal of Sociology, 98 (6), pp. 1259-1319.
Pierson, Paul. 2000. Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of
Politics. American Political Science Review, 94 (2), pp. 251-67.
Rokkan, Stein. 1999. Part IV, Cleavage Structure and Party Systems, pages 275340. State Formation, Nation Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of

Stein Rokkan, based on his collected works. Ed. by Peter Flora. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Sahlins, Peter. The Nation in the Village: State-Building and Communal Struggles in
the Catalan Borderland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Journal of
Modern History 60, no. 2 (1988): 234-263.
Schickler, Eric. 2001. Disjointed pluralism: institutional innovation and the
development of the U.S. Congress: Princeton University Press.
Scott, James C. 1999. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the
Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press
Sewell, William. 1996. Political Events as Structural Transformations: Inventing
Revolution at the Bastille. Theory and Society, 24, pp. 841-81.
Shefter, Martin. 1977. Party and Patronage: Germany, England, and Italy. Politics
and Society 7, pp. 403-451.
Skocpol, Theda and Margaret Somers. 1980: The Uses of Comparative History in
Macrosocial Inquiry. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 22 (2), pp.17497.
Skowronek, Stephen. 1982. Building a New American State: The Expansion of
National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Swenson, Peter. 2002. Parts I and II. Pages 1-23, 39-90, and 215-269. Capitalists
against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United
States and Sweden: Oxford.
Thelen, Kathleen. 2004. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in
Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan, pps. 1-23, 39-90, and 215-269.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tilly, Charles. 1989. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. Russell
Sage Foundation.
Weber, Max. 1904/1905. Chapter 1 of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism, Dover.
Weber, Max. 1949. Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy, In The
Methodology of the Social Sciences, Shils and Finch Eds., New York: The Free
Press.