The Strategy of Paired Comparison: Toward a Theory of Practice

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Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method (2014, unknown): “By carefully studying a small number of cases, comparative researchers gather evidence at a level of granularity that is difficult if not impossible to incorporate in quantitative studies, which tend to focus on larger samples but employ much coarser descriptions of the sample units.”
Combining QCA and Process Tracing in Set-Theoretic Multi-Method Research (2013, background): “Second, without knowledge of the causal processes operative in a typical case, one can hardly discern the reason(s) for the deviance of a case (Tarrow 2010).”