A Case for Cases

Peter Abell
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Peter Abell: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, p.abell@lse.ac.uk

Sociological Methods & Research, 2009, vol. 38, issue 1, 38-70

Abstract: When case studies are constructed as narratives, then causal explanation can be achieved without either comparison or generalization. Narratives provide paths of causal links on a chronology of actions or events. The links, in turn, can be studied as Bayesian inferences generating Bayesian narratives. The causal paths in a narrative have a Boolean structure.

Keywords: Bayesian narrative; causal explanation; Boolean analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0049124109339372

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