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 QUALITATIVE METHODS PANELS

 APSA 2006

 


 

 

46-1  (17-1)   Theoretical Synthesis Empirical Advances in International Politics

Date:

Saturday, Sep 2, 4:15 PM

Chair:

Peter J. Katzenstein, pjk2@cornell.edu, Cornell University

Author(s):

Cultivating Consensus: International Institutions and a Liberal World View
Rachel Epstein, repstein@du.edu, University of Denver

For the Market, or for ‘Our Friends’? Reforming Banking Laws in Hungary and Bulgaria after 1989
Aneta Borislavova Spendzharova, aneta@email.unc.edu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Pattern of International Organization
Liesbet Hooghe, hooghe@unc.edu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Gary Marks, marks@unc.edu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Norms, Systemic Change and Instrumentalism: Explaining the Rise of Election Monitoring
Judith Kelley, kelley@pps.duke.edu, Duke University

 

Discussant(s):

Jeffrey T. Checkel, jeffrey.checkel@stv.uio.no, University of Oslo

46-2 (11-19)   Roundtable: What Has Comparative Politics Accomplished? A Conversation Among Leading Scholars

Date:

Thursday, Aug 31, 4:15 PM

Chair:

Richard Snyder, Richard_Snyder@brown.edu, Brown University

Participant(s):

Robert A. Dahl, robert.dahl@yale.edu, Yale University
David D. Laitin, dlaitin@stanford.edu, Stanford University
Theda Skocpol, skocpol@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University
Alfred C. Stepan, as48@columbia.edu, Columbia University

Discussant(s):

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

 

 

46-3 (11-20)   Temporal Dimensions of Policies and Politics

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 8:00 AM

Chair:

James Mahoney, James-Mahoney@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University

Author(s):

Disaggregating Temporal Effects and Their Policy Impact
Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, abusse@umich.edu, University of Michigan

Winners Take All or Policy Feedback Effects?
Maria Victoria Murillo, mm2140@columbia.edu, Columbia University

The Politics of Investment: Theorizing Governments' Policy Choices for the Long Term
Alan M. Jacobs, jacobs@politics.ubc.ca, University of British Columbia

Content and Causal Homogeneity in Historical Analysis
Tulia G. Falleti, University of Pennsylvania
  Julia Lynch, jflynch@sas.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania

Un-privatizing Pensions?: The Dynamic Policy Effects of Social Security Reform in the Short, Medium and Long Term
Shannon O'Neil, soneil@post.harvard.edu, Harvard University

 

Discussant(s):

Evelyne Huber, ehuber@unc.edu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Co-Discussant(s):

Stephen E. Hanson, shanson@u.washington.edu, University of Washington

46-4   Descriptive Inference: Is there a Method to Describing?

Date:

Saturday, Sep 2, 2:00 PM

Chair:

Bear F. Braumoeller, bfbraum@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University

Author(s):

What Is the Difference Between Good Description and Bad Description?
John Gerring, jgerring@bu.edu, Boston University

Descriptive Statistical Inference
Kevin M. Quinn, kquinn@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University

The Shape of Political Participation: Descriptive Inference with Normative and Scientific Implications
Jake Bowers, jbowers@rwj.harvard.edu, University of Michigan

 

Discussant(s):

Bear F. Braumoeller, bfbraum@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University

Co-Discussant(s):

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

46-5   Multimethod Research: Best Practices, Challenges, and Exemplars

Date:

Saturday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM

Chair:

Andrew Bennett, bennetta@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

Participant(s):

Margaret Levi, mlevi@u.washington.edu, University of Washington, Seattle
Robert H. Bates, rbates@latte.harvard.edu, Harvard University
Hein Erich Goemans, hgoemans@mail.rochester.edu, University of Rochester
Kenneth A. Schultz, kschultz@stanford.edu, Stanford University
Evan S. Lieberman, esl@princeton.edu, Princeton University

Discussant(s):

Andrew Bennett, bennetta@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

46-6   The Politics of Ideas: Theory, Method, and Analysis

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 10:15 AM

Chair:

Robert H. Cox, rhcox@ou.edu, University of Oklahoma

Author(s):

Give Peace a Chance: Reconciling Four (Not Three) 'New Institutionalisms'
Vivien A. Schmidt, vschmidt@bu.edu, Boston University

Constructivist Institutionalism – Or, Why Interests into Ideas Don’t Go
Colin Hay, c.s.hay@bham.ac.uk, University of Birmingham

Ideas, Position, and Supranationality
Craig A. Parsons, cap@uoregon.edu, University of Oregon

Ideas versus Expertise: Think Tanks and the Organizations of Information in American Policymaking
Andrew Rich, arich@ccny.cuny.edu, City College of New York and CUNY Grad Center

New Social Risks and the Changing Welfare State: Ideas, Policy Drift, and Early Childhood Education and Care Policies in Australia, the UK and the U.S.A.
Daniel Wincott, d.wincott@bham.ac.uk, University of Birmingham

 

Discussant(s):

Daniel Beland, dbeland@ucalgary.ca, University of Calgary

46-7   (11-45) Roundtable: Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies

Date:

Saturday, Sep 2, 4:15 PM

Chair:

Ellen M. Immergut, immergue@cms.hu-berlin.de, Humboldt University Berlin

Participant(s):

Kathleen Thelen, thelen@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University
Jacob S. Hacker, jacob.hacker@yale.edu, Yale University
Theda Skocpol, skocpol@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University
Julia Lynch, jflynch@sas.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania
Pauline Jones Luong, Pauline_Luong@brown.edu, Brown University

46-8   Roundtable: Path Dependence Meets Punctuated Equilibrium: Similarities and Differences

Date:

Thursday, Aug 31, 8:00 AM

Chair:

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

Participant(s):

Jack A. Goldstone, jgoldsto@gmu.edu, George Mason University
Bryan D. Jones, bdjones@u.washington.edu, University of Washington
Paul F. Diehl, pdiehl@uiuc.edu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sheri Berman, sberman@barnard.edu, Barnard College
Frank R. Baumgartner, frankb@la.psu.edu, Pennsylvania State University

46-9   The Methods Cafe-Consult a Specialist: Methodological Brainstorming

Date:

Thursday, Aug 31, 12:00 PM

Chair:

Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, cyrus.zirakzadeh@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut

Author(s):

Are interpretive methods rigorous? Evaluative Standards
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu, University of Utah

Conversational Interviewing
Joe Soss, jbsoss@wisc.edu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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

Ethnography/Field Research, especially overseas contexts
Samer S. Shehata, sss32@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

Ethnography/Field Research, especially overseas contexts
Diane Singerman, dsinger@american.edu, American University

New Historical Institutionalism/ Science Studies
Pamela Brandwein, pbrand@utdallas.edu, University of Texas, Dallas

Participant Observation/Field Research, especially U.S. contexts
Dorian T. Warren, dw2288@columbia.edu, University of Chicago

Political Theorists Doing Empirical Research
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, kaufmatv@whitman.edu, Whitman College

Reflexive Historical Analysis
Ido Oren, oren@polisci.ufl.edu, University of Florida

Space/Metaphor/Category Analysis
Dvora Yanow, d.yanow@fsw.vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Working with 'Personal' Documents (Autobiographies, Diaries, Memoirs, Life Histories, etc.)
Lloyd I. Rudolph, lrudolph@uchicago.edu, University of Chicago
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, srudolph@midway.uchicago.edu, University of Chicago
 

46-10   Roundtable on Gary Goertz, 'Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide'

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 10:15 AM

 

Chair:

David Collier, dcollier@berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

Participant(s):

Elinor Ostrom, ostrom@indiana.edu, Indiana University, Bloomington
David Waldner, daw4h@virginia.edu, University of Virginia
Mark Bevir, mbevir@berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley
James D. Johnson, jd.johnson@rochester.edu, University of Rochester
Amy G. Mazur, mazur@mail.wsu.edu, Washington State University

46-11   Rethinking Interpretation and the Interpreter

Date:

Sunday, Sep 3, 8:00 AM

Chair:

Audie Klotz, aklotz@maxwell.syr.edu, Syracuse University

Author(s):

Agent Based Modeling as Qualitative Methods
Matthew Hoffman, mjhoffud@yahoo.com, University of Delaware

What Defines Research as Qualitative?
J. Samuel Barkin, barkin@polisci.ufl.edu, University of Florida

The 'Real Politics of Reason': Thinking International Relations through Bourdieu's Fields, Habitus and Practice
Anna Leander, ale.ikl@cbs.dk, Copenhagen Business School

Examining Historical Representations
Kevin C. Dunn, dunn@hws.edu, Hobart William Smith Colleges

Discussant(s):

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

Co-Discussant(s):

Nina Tannenwald, ninat@brown.edu, Brown University

46-12   Roundtable: Social Inquiry and Political Knowledge

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 8:00 AM

Chair:

Martin O. Heisler, mheisler@gvpt.umd.edu, University of Maryland

Participant(s):

Macartan Humphreys, mh2245@columbia.edu, Columbia University
John Gerring, jgerring@bu.edu, Boston University
Stefano Guzzini, sgu@diis.dk, Uppsala University/Danish Institute for International Studies
Martin O. Heisler, mheisler@gvpt.umd.edu, University of Maryland

Discussant(s):

Mark I. Lichbach, mlichbach@gvpt.umd.edu, University of Maryland

Co-Discussant(s):

Richard Ned Lebow, richard.ned.lebow@dartmouth.edu, Dartmouth College

46-13   New Directions in Constructivist Political Economy

Date:

Saturday, Sep 2, 10:15 AM

Chair:

Philip G. Cerny, pgcerny@rutgers.edu, Rutgers University, Newark

Author(s):

Constructivism Can Be as Causal as Anything Else
Craig A. Parsons, cap@uoregon.edu, University of Oregon

Cheerleading for Liberalization: The IMF and Financial Globalization in Emerging Markets
Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.uk, London School of Economics

A Constructivist Perspective on Political Strategy: Building Europe's Market
Nicolas Jabko, jabko@ceri-sciences-po.org, Sciences Po

Discussant(s):

Rodney Bruce Hall, rodney.hall@qeh.ox.ac.uk, Oxford University

46-14   (De)coding Discourse

Date:

Sunday, Sep 3, 10:15 AM

Chair:

Laura Stoker, stoker@socrates.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

Author(s):

(De)coding Content: Emergent Code Identification in Content Analysis
Emily D Shaw, e_shaw@berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

Melodramatic Discourse and the Legitimation of Power
Elisabeth Anker, libanker@gmail.com, University of California, Berkeley
  Matthew Scherer, scherer@gmail.com, Johns Hopkins University

Coded Communication and Religious Appeals in American Politics
Bethany Albertson, balberts@u.washington.edu, University of Chicago

What Are the Blogs Telling Us? Exploiting Blogs as a Source of Data
Kevin Jay Wallsten, wallsten@uclink.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

 

Discussant(s):

Laura Stoker, stoker@socrates.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

46-15   The Making of Modern Political Science

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 8:00 AM

Chair:

Shannon C. Stimson, stimson@berkeley.edu, University of California-Berkeley

Author(s):

The Historical Science(s) of Politics: The Principles, Association and Fate of an American Discipline
James Farr, jfarr@umn.edu, University of Minnesota

Making Democracy Safe for the World: Political Science Between the Wars
John G. Gunnell, jgg@albany.edu, SUNY, Albany

Interpreting Behavioralism
Robert Kaufman Adcock, adcockr@berkeley.edu, Stanford University

Historicizing the New Institutionalism(s)
Mark Bevir, mbevir@berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

 

Discussant(s):

Terence Ball, terence.ball@asu.edu, Arizona State University

46-16   (8-5) Examples of Multi-Method Research

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 8:00 AM

Chair:

Rose McDermott, rmcdermott@polsci.ucsb.edu, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author(s):

The Calculus of Patient Advocacy in FDA Drug Review: Stories and Models
Daniel P. Carpenter, dcarpenter@latte.harvard.edu, Harvard University

Using Multiple Methods to Study Multiple Marginalization: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Normative Approaches to Studying the Intersectional Politics of Racial, Gender, and Income Inequalities
Dara Z. Strolovitch, dara@polisci.umn.edu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

A Multi-Method Exploration of Truth Commissions
Eric Brahm, eric.brahm@unlv.edu, University of Colorado

Was Iraq a Threat to International Peace and Security? Methodological Insights to Explore the Question
Laura Sjoberg, laura_sjoberg@ksg.harvard.edu, Harvard University
  Christopher Marcoux, cmarcoux@polsci.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Can They Be Joined?
Nathaniel Beck, Nathaniel.Beck@nyu.edu, New York University

 

Discussant(s):

Rose McDermott, rmcdermott@polsci.ucsb.edu, University of California, Santa Barbara

46-17   Ethnographic Methods and Knowledge about Politics

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 2:00 PM

Chair:

Jessica Allina-Pisano, jallina-pisano@mail.colgate.edu, Colgate University

Participant(s):

Lorraine Bayard de Volo, LBDV@ku.edu, University of Kansas

Author(s):

Ethnography from Below? Reflections from an Industrialized Slaughterhouse on Perspective, Power, and the Ethnographic Voice
Timothy Pachirat, timothy.pachirat@yale.edu, Yale University

The Problem with the Toolbox Metaphor: Ethnography and the Limits to Multiple-Methods Research
Edward Schatz, ed.schatz@utoronto.ca, University of Toronto
 

Discussant(s):

James C. Scott, james.scott@yale.edu, Yale University

Co-Discussant(s):

Dvora Yanow, d.yanow@fsw.vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

46-18   Concept Analysis: Unpacking Clientelism, Governance and Neoliberalism

Date:

Saturday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM

Author(s):

From Rallying Cry to Whipping Boy: The Concept of Neoliberalism in the Study of Development
Taylor C. Boas, tboas@uclink.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley
  Jordan Luc Gans-Morse, g_morse@uclink.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

Liberalization, Segmentation, Informalization: Strategies of Adaptation in Varieties of Capitalism
Sebastian R. Karcher, karcher@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University

Rethinking Governance: Shared Standards among Quantiative, Qualitative, and Interpretive Tools
Aaron Schneider, a.schneider@ids.ac.uk, University of Sussex

Reconceptualizing Clientelism: Combining Demand and Supply-Driven Approaches
Nikolaos Biziouras, nikolaos_biziouras@ksg.harvard.edu, Harvard University

Conceptualizing Clientelism: Political Exchange and Democratic Theory
Jonathan Hopkin, J.R.Hopkin@lse.ac.uk, London School of Economics

 

46-19   Roundtable on the Work and Legacy of Giovanni Sartori

Date:

Thursday, Aug 31, 10:15 AM

 

Chair:

David Collier, dcollier@berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

Participant(s):

Giovanni Sartori, Columbia University
John Gerring, jgerring@bu.edu, Boston University
Cindy L. Skach, skach@fas.harvard.edu, Harvard University
Marcus J. Kurtz, kurtz.61@osu.edu, Ohio State University
Gary Goertz, ggoertz@u.arizona.edu, University of Arizona

46-20   The Ethics and Process of Data Collection and Analysis

Date:

Saturday, Sep 2, 2:00 PM

Chair:

Benjamin L. Read, benjamin-read@uiowa.edu, University of Iowa

Author(s):

Pragmatism, Politics, Political Science
Jonathan B. Isacoff, isacoff@gonzaga.edu, Gonzaga University

Methodological Issues in the Study of Governance: Practitioner-Oriented Design, Qualitative Information, and User Confidence -- Epistemological and Pragmatic Issues in Applied Research
T. Allen Lambert, lament@clarityconnect.com, SUNY, Albany
  Enoch A. Lambert, el48@cornell.edu, Cornell University

The Power of Position: The Consideration of Power in the Process of Political Science Research
Lauren M. Morris MacLean, macleanl@indiana.edu, Indiana University

When to Stop Interviewing: Applying Insights from Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Circle
Bernd Reiter, reiter@iac.usf.edu, USF

 

Discussant(s):

Benjamin L. Read, benjamin-read@uiowa.edu, University of Iowa

46-21   Process Tracing and Causal Analysis in Small-N Research

Date:

Friday, Sep 1, 4:15 PM