Case Selection Criteria, Methods, and Data Treatment

Jason García Portilla
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Jason García Portilla: University of St. Gallen

Chapter Chapter 17 in Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits, 2022, pp 259-267 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the criteria for selecting the cases analysed in this study. It explains the application of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as its principal empirical method. It discusses CDA methods and data treatment as well as the empirical analysis of CDA results. Finally, it compares and summarises the case selection criteria. Four countries were compared: Switzerland, Uruguay, Cuba, and Colombia. These cases are also linked to the correlated variables in the quantitative model and to the sufficient conditions in the QCA. Cases were selected based on the “extreme case method”. Each of the selected countries serves as a proxy of a larger group of countries (Latin American Strong Catholic, Secular, Communism, Protestant or mixed Old World.). Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and religion constitute the qualitative method (micro-component). Sixty semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using memos and open coding.

Keywords: Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and religion; Qualitative method; Roman Catholicism; Protestantism; Case studies; Switzerland; Uruguay; Cuba; Colombia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78498-0_17

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