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 QUALITATIVE METHODS PANELS

 APSA 2005

 


 

46-1   Roundtable: Ethnography Meets Rational Choice: The Case of David Laitin, For Example

Date:

Friday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM

 

Chair:

Ted Hopf, hopf.2@osu.edu, The Ohio State University

Participant(s):

Robert H. Bates, rbates@latte.harvard.edu, Harvard University
David Woodruff, dmwoodr@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University
Ashutosh Varshney, varshney@umich.edu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kanchan Chandra, kchandra@mit.edu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Author(s):

Being David Laitin: The Fearon Factor
Ted Hopf, hopf.2@osu.edu, Ohio State University

 

Discussant(s):

Yoshiko M. Herrera, herrera@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University

46-2   The Role of Prediction in Testing Social Science Theory

Date:

Sunday, Sep 4, 8:00 AM

 

Chair:

Peter Turchin, peter.turchin@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut

Author(s):

Prediction: Its Place in Politics
Michael S. Lewis-Beck, carole-eldeen@uiowa.edu, University of Iowa

Thinking Causally About Predictions
David Waldner, daw4h@virginia.edu, University of Virginia
  Stephen E. Hanson, shanson@uwashington.edu, University of Washington

Wisdom, Prophecy, and Prediction: A Weberian Approach to the Testing of Social Science Theory
Stephen E. Hanson, shanson@uwashington.edu, University of Washington

Testing Theories in Historical Sociology by Contrasting Model Predictions with Data
Peter Turchin, peter.turchin@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut

 

Discussant(s):

Alexander Wendt, wendt.23@osu.edu, The Ohio State University

 

46-3   Political Regimes: Concepts, Classifications, and Comparisons

Date:

Saturday, Sep 3, 8:00 AM

 

Chair:

Gerardo L. Munck, munck@usc.edu, University of Southern California

Author(s):

Militant Democracies? Repression and Tolerance of Political Dissent in Western Europe
Giovanni Capoccia, giovanni.capoccia@ccc.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford

Defective Democracies as Hybrid Regimes
Wolfgang Merkel, wolfgang.merkel@wz-berlin.de, Humboldt Universitaet

Backsliding or Deepening? Trajectories of Post-Cold War Transitions
Philip Roessler, proessler@gvpt.umd.edu, University of Maryland

Classifying and Explaining Hybrid Regimes
Marc Morjé Howard, mmh@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

 

Discussant(s):

Lucan A. Way, lway@temple.edu, Temple University

Co-Discussant(s):

Gerardo L. Munck, munck@usc.edu, University of Southern California

46-4   A Roundtable on Alexander George and Andrew Bennett's "Case Studies and Theory Development in Social Sciences"

Date:

Thursday, Sep 1, 4:15 PM

 

Co-sponsored by 43-13

 

Chair:

Jack S. Levy, jacklevy@rci.rutgers.edu, Rutgers University

Participant(s):

Daniel W. Drezner, ddrezner@uchicago.edu, Univeristy of Chicago
Christopher H. Achen, achen@princeton.edu, Princeton University
John S. Odell, odell@usc.edu, University of Southern California
David Dessler, dadess@wm.edu, College of William & Mary
Andrew Bennett, bennetta@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

 

46-5    Rethinking Qualitative Methods: A Symposium on Rethinking Social Inquiry Edited By Henry Brady and David Collier

Date:

Thursday, Sep 1, 2:00 PM

 

Co-sponsored by 8-11

 

Participant(s):

David Collier, dcollier@berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley
Philip A. Schrodt, schrodt@ku.edu, University of Kansas
Nathaniel Beck, Nathaniel.Beck@nyu.edu, New York University
W. Phillips Shively, shively@umn.edu, University of Minnesota
Andrew Bennett, bennetta@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

Discussant(s):

Henry E. Brady, hbrady@csm.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

 

46-6   Author Meets Critics Roundtable on Paul Pierson's Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

Date:

Thursday, Sep 1, 4.15 PM

 

Co-sponsored by 7-22

 

Chair:

Kathleen Thelen, thelen@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University

Participant(s):

David R. Mayhew, david.mayhew@yale.edu, Yale University
Bo Rothstein, bo.rothstein@pol.gu.se, Göteborg University
James Mahoney, james_mahoney@brown.edu, Brown University
Kathleen Thelen, thelen@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University
Paul Pierson, pierson@berkeley.edu, Harvard University

 

46-7   Qualitative Methods and the Subfields: Performance and Prospect

Date:

Thursday, Sep 1, 10:15 AM

 

Chair:

James A. Caporaso, caporaso@u.washington.edu, University of Washington

Author(s):

Comparative Politics
James Mahoney, james_mahoney@brown.edu, Brown University

American Politics and American Political Development
Paul Pierson, pierson@berkeley.edu, Harvard University

International Relations
Colin Elman, colin.elman@asu.edu, Arizona State University

 

Discussant(s):

James A. Caporaso, caporaso@u.washington.edu, University of Washington

 

46-8   Constructing Global Politics: Strategies for Research

Date:

Friday, Sep 2, 4:15 PM

 

Chair:

Cecelia Lynch, clynch@uci.edu, University of California, Irvine

Participant(s):

Mara Sidney, msidney@andromeda.rutgers.edu, Rutgers University, Newark
Paul A. Kowert, kowert@fiu.edu, Florida International University
Audie Klotz, aklotz@maxwell.syr.edu, Syracuse University

Discussant(s):

Celine Andree Jacquemin, cjacquemin1@stmarytx.edu, St. Mary's University

Co-Discussant(s):

Siba Grovogui, sibagro@jhu.edu,

46-9   Measuring the Unmeasurable

Date:

Friday, Sep 2, 2:00 PM

 

Chair:

Jacques E.C. Hymans, jhymans@email.smith.edu, Smith College

Participant(s):

Kathleen R. McNamara, krm32@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University
M. Taylor Fravel, fravel@mit.edu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jacques E.C. Hymans, jhymans@email.smith.edu, Smith College
Aaron Lobel, alobel@americaabroadmedia.org, America Abroad Media

Discussant(s):

Rawi Abdelal, rabdelal@hbs.edu, Harvard University

 

46-10   Analysis of International Treaties: Major Research Projects

Date:

Thursday, Sep 1, 4.15 PM

 

Co-sponsored by 17-20

 

Chair:

Brett Ashley Leeds, leeds@rice.edu, Rice University

Author(s):

Coding Alliances--Issues Related to State Commitments and Treaty Termination in the Correlates of War Formal Alliance Dataset
Douglas M. Gibler, dgibler@uky.edu, University of Kentucky

Comprehensive Statistical Database of Multilateral Treaties (CSDMT)
John King Gamble, jkg2@psu.edu, Pennsylvania State University

Treaty Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: Analysis and Coding Issues in Multi-Issue Treaties
Kathy L. Powers, klp18@psu.edu, Penn State University

The International Environmental Agreements Project: Structure, Analytic Goals, and an Example From Fisheries
Ronald B. Mitchell, rmitchel@uoregon.edu, University of Oregon

How Membership in an International Agreement Affects the Compliance Mechanisms
Barbara Koremenos, koremeno@polisci.ucla.edu, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Discussant(s):

Brett Ashley Leeds, leeds@rice.edu, Rice University

 

46-11   Advances in Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets

Date:

Saturday, Sep 3, 10:15 AM

 

Chair:

Charles C. Ragin, cragin@email.arizona.edu, University of Arizona

Author(s):

Apples and Oranges, Elections and Free Expression: Measuring Democracy Using QCA
Jimi Adams, adams.644@sociology.osu.edu, The Ohio State University
  Dan Tope, tope.14@sociology.osu.edu,

Multi-Value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (MVQCA)--A New Tool for Cross-National Research
Lasse Cronqvist, lasse4@cronqvist.net, University of Marburg
  Dirk Berg-Schlosser, bergschl@mailer.uni-marburg.de, Philipps-University Marburg

Failing States, Failing Data: The Case for QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis)
Caty Clement, clement@spri.ucl.ac.be, Harvard University

 

Discussant(s):

Charles C. Ragin, cragin@email.arizona.edu, University of Arizona

 

46-12   Gendered Concepts

Date:

Friday, Sep 2, 2:00 PM

 

Co-sponsored by 31-15

 

Chair:

Pamela Paxton, paxton.36@osu.edu, The Ohio State University

Author(s):

Comparative Study of Women’s Movements: Conceptual Puzzles and RNGS Solutions
Dorothy E. McBride, stetsond@fau.edu, Florida Atlantic University
  Amy G. Mazur, mazur@mail.wsu.edu, Washington State University

Rethinking Intersectionality: Conceptual Problems in Comparative Research on Gendered Welfare States
S. Laurel Weldon, weldon@polsci.purdue.edu, Purdue University

You Got It, So When Do You Flaunt It?: Fieldwork Settings and the Strategic Deployment of Gender
Erin E. O'Brien, eobrien1@kent.edu, Kent State University
  Julie M. Mazzei, juliet12@centurytel.net, American University

Is Intersectionality a New Paradigm for Democratic Justice?
Ange-Marie Hancock, Ange-Marie.Hancock@yale.edu, Yale University

 

Discussant(s):

Sheri L. Kunovich, kunovich@smu.edu, Southern Methodist University

Co-Discussant(s):

Gary Goertz, ggoertz@u.arizona.edu, University of Arizona

 

46-13   Methodology and the Study of Gender and Politics

Date:

Saturday, Sep 3, 4:15 PM

 

Co-sponsored by 31-16

 

Chair:

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu, University of Utah

Author(s):

Theory and Emprical Research Reconciled. Methodological Reflexions on ‘Women MP’s Representing Women’
Karen Celis, karen.celis@hogent.be, Hogeschool Gent

Comparing Methods for Studying Women in Politics: Statistical, Case Study, and Qualitative-Comparative Techniques
Mona Lena Krook, mlkrook@yahoo.com, Washington University in St. Louis

Relations and Representions of Women of Color: Struggling with Theory and Methods
Anna Sampaio, asampaio@carbon.cudenver.edu, University of Colorado, Denver

N = 5 to 20: A Challenge to Feminist Research?
Candice D. Ortbals, Candice.Ortbals@pepperdine.edu, Pepperdine University

 

Discussant(s):

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu, University of Utah

 

46-14   What Makes a Good Case Study?

Date:

Thursday, Sep 1, 8:00 AM

 

Co-sponsored by 43-14

 

Chair:

Charles C. Ragin, cragin@email.arizona.edu, University of Arizona

Author(s):

What You See (Possibly) Isn't What You Get - A Two-Step Procedure for Nesting Case Studies in Regression Analysis
Ingo Rohlfing, i.rohlfing@iu-bremen.de, International University Bremen

What`s the Utility of the Case-Study Method for Social Science Research? A Response to Critiques from the Qualitative/Statistical Perspective
Jugdep S. Chima, jschima2000@yahoo.com, University of California, Berkeley

What is a Good Case?: Case-Selection Methods for Case Study Research
John Gerring, jgerring@bu.edu, Boston University

 

Discussant(s):

Charles C. Ragin, cragin@email.arizona.edu, University of Arizona

 


46-15   Critical Junctures, Path Dependency and Process Tracing

Date:

Thursday, Sep 1, 10:15 AM

 

Chair:

Melani Cammett, Melani_Cammett@Brown.edu, Brown University

Author(s):

Congress in Time: Issues of Path Dependency and Sequencing in Analyses of Congressional Reform
Jens Borchert, borchert@rz.uni-potsdam.de, University of Potsdam

Theory, Narrative and Counterfactuals in the Analysis of Critical Junctures
Giovanni Capoccia, giovanni.capoccia@ccc.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford
  R. Daniel Kelemen, daniel.kelemen@politics.ox.ac.uk, Oxford University

Critical Inertia
Douglas B. Grob, dgrob@umd.edu, University of Maryland

Comparability: A Key Issue in Research Design

Craig W. Thomas, cthomas@polsci.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

 

 46-16   Philosophy, Methods and the Nature of Causation

Date:

Saturday, Sep 3, 4:15 PM

 

Chair:

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, ptjack@american.edu, American University

Author(s):

What is Analytic Eclecticism and Why Do We Need It? A Pragmatic Perspective on Problems, Mechanisms and Progress in Comparative and International Studies
Rudra Sil, rudysil@sas.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania
  Peter J. Katzenstein, pjk2@cornell.edu, Cornell University

Causality and the Logic of Methods
Abhishek Chatterjee, ac7y@virginia.edu, University of Virginia

The Philosophy of Social Explanations
Alexej Behnisch, aab02@aber.ac.uk, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Reduction, Emergence, and Downward Causation in International Relations Theory
David Leon, dleon@polisci.umn.edu, University of Minnesota

Relexivity and Falsification in Qualitative Methods
J. P. Singh, jps6@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

 

Discussant(s):

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, ptjack@american.edu, American University

 

46-17   Do Concepts Travel?

Date:

Saturday, Sep 3, 2:00 PM

 

Chair:

Lisa L. Miller, miller@polisci.rutgers.edu, Rutgers University

Author(s):

The Fuzzy Concept of Democracy
James W. Davis, james.davis@unisg.ch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Theory as a Hermeneutical Mechanism of Attaching Meaning to Political Concepts: Some Observations from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Piki Ish-Shalom, pinhas_ish-shalom@ksg.harvard.edu, Harvard University

What Makes a Political Concept Political?
Michael Freeden, michael.freeden@mansfield.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford

Crafting Explanatory Concepts
Naomi Choi, nchoi@socrates.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

 

Discussant(s):

Lisa L. Miller, miller@polisci.rutgers.edu, Rutgers University

 

46-18   Methodological Innovation at the Intersection of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Date: