How should economists analyze institutions? Comments on David Skarbek, ‘Qualitative research methods for institutional analysis’

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-431
Author(s):  
Mary M. Shirley
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Institutional Settings

AbstractDavid Skarbek argues that qualitative research methods can analyze institutions by exploiting complex evidence not accessible through quantitative methods. He suggests that well-done case studies and process tracing can meet some of the same tests of inference as statistical methods. Although Skarbek's critique and proposals mirror those of many other authors, including Ronald Coase, he nonetheless makes an important contribution. The brief, cogent, and instructive way he presents his advice and his defense of qualitative methods as a complement to mainstream methods rather than a confrontation, may be more persuasive than more confrontational arguments. As ‘datafication’ is quickly turning qualitative observations into quantitative data analyzed through machine learning, Skarbek's excellent advice on how to understand what is happening under different institutional settings could not be timelier.

Qualitative Research Methods in Occupational Therapy

1988 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 344-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods

A wide variety of research methods are appropriate for use in occupational therapy. Most publicity has been given to quantitative methods and it is of interest to note that the approach most frequently reported in the British Journal of Occupational Therapy is the use of questionnaires. Very little has been written about the use of qualitative methods. The purpose of this article is to clarify what is meant by the term ‘qualitative methods' and to elaborate on the benefits of using such an approach to research.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Experienced Researcher

99 entries The Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education has brought together scholars from across the globe who use qualitative methods in their research to address the history, current uses, adaptations for specific knowledge domains and situations, and problematics that drive the methodology. This is the most comprehensive resource available on qualitative methods in education. For novice researchers, the Encyclopedia enables a broad view of the methods and how to enact them in the studies that early-career researchers may wish to conduct. For the experienced researcher, the range of approaches and adaptations covered enables the development of sophisticated methodological designs. For those who are qualitative research methodologists, this book reveals where the methodology has come from and where it is going. Methodologists can use these volumes to discern where new ideas and practices are needed, and provide the bases for new methodological works. For those who teach these methods, the Encyclopedia is an invaluable compendium that can be tapped for inclusion in courses and to enable the instructor to be able to quickly respond to specific student needs with high-quality methodological resources.

Qualitative Methods in International and Comparative Criminology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Travers
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Environmental Media ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Wide Range

Although the field of international criminology has mostly employed quantitative methods to test universal theories, there is a growing recognition of the potential value of qualitative methods in understanding crime and criminal justice in a globalizing world. The difficulties in developing this field are partly practical and financial. It is difficult visiting different countries and overcoming language barriers. But there are also conceptual challenges. Criminology generally is only just starting to understand and engage with the distinction between quantitative and qualitative research methods and to discover the wide range of qualitative methods employed in interdisciplinary fields, such as education, health, environmental, media, and management studies, and to recognize that theories are important in this field.

Qualitative methods III

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 779-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Dowling ◽  
Kate Lloyd ◽  
Sandie Suchet-Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Health Geography ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

In this, our third and final snapshot of contemporary qualitative research methods, we pick up on the proliferation of non-representational theory across human geography and focus on research methods concerned with practices that exceed (more than) representation or are non-representational. We chart work that pays attention to the non-visible, the non-verbal and the non-obvious, as well as methods and methodologies that enable researchers to grasp and grapple with assemblages, relationalities, and life as it unfolds. We characterize these ‘more-than representational’ methodologies as: experimenting with approaches to research, using picturing as an embedded research methodology, and highlighting research as sensing. We conclude that these have opened new forms of knowledge, including into subdisciplines like health geography. Nonetheless, a privileging of written and visual modes of thinking and representing remain, and the discipline must be vigilant to nurture and value the emerging work on neural diversity and non-Western modes of thinking.

Qualitative research methods for institutional analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Skarbek
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Statistical Estimation ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
Comparative Case Studies

AbstractHow can economists use qualitative evidence – such as archival materials, interviews, and ethnography – to study institutions? While applied economists typically rely on quantitative evidence and statistical estimation, many important aspects of institutions and institutional change appear in the form of qualitative evidence. This raises the question if, and how, social scientists trained in quantitative methods can exploit and analyze this evidence. This paper discusses two qualitative research methods that are both commonly used outside of economics: comparative case studies and process tracing. Drawing on existing research about crime and political revolutions, it discusses these two methods and how to implement them to improve institutional analysis.

scholarly journals Yours, Mine and Ours: Theorizing the Global Articulation of Qualitative Research Methods and Academic Disciplines

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan C. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Professional Discipline ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Research Questions

<p>Two current forms of globalization are inherently interesting to academic qualitative researchers. The first is <em>the globalization of qualitative research methods </em>themselves. The second is <em>the globalization of academic disciplines </em>in which those methods are institutionalized as a valuable resource for professional practices of teaching and scholarly research. This essay argues that patterns in existing discussion of these two trends create an opportunity for innovative scholarship. That opportunity involves reflexively leveraging qualitative research methods to study the simultaneous negotiation by academic communities of <em>both </em>qualitative methods <em>and </em>their professional discipline. Five theories that serve to develop this opportunity are reviewed, focusing on their related benefits and limitations, and the specific research questions they yield. The essay concludes by synthesizing distinctive commitments of this proposed research program.</p>

scholarly journals Punk Community in Criminology Study (Study in Ngaliyan District, Semarang City)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Nurul Izzah Millennia ◽  
Yuni Anan ◽  
Indah Lestari ◽  
Ridwan Arifin ◽  
Ashbar Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
The Road ◽  
Context Data ◽  
The Subject ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Conducting Research

The purpose of this study was to find out what criminal cases were carried out by punk children, then what factors behind them committed the crime, and why they could enter the punk community. Punk kids are always associated with a negative action, look weird, steal, children are slang, immoral, and other negative things. Sometimes punk children choose to live on the road not only a factor in the conditions of economic difficulties, but also because they enjoy environmental conditions on the road, they feel their families do not care, and lack of education. Research methods The research method used in conducting research on the criminal acts of punk children community is to use qualitative research methods with a sociological juridical approach. Qualitative research methods according to Lexy J Moleong are research that intends to understand the phenomenon of what is understood by the subject of research, such as behavior, perceptions, motivations, actions, etc., holistically and in description in the form of words and language in a natural context. Data collection uses quantitative methods. The results of the study concluded that criminal acts or crimes by punk children were carried out due to economic, family, environmental factors, and lack of education.  

Qualitative Research Methods and Evidential Reasoning

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 385-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corrado Matta
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Evidential Reasoning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This article discusses the concept of evidential reasoning in the context of qualitative research methods in the social sciences. A conceptualization of qualitative evidential reasoning is proposed. This conceptualization is based on the analysis of an example of qualitative methods applied to the study of music education. I argue that this conceptualization identifies specific and nontrivial conditions for qualitative evidential reasoning and, at the same time, supports the claim that there is no essential methodological separation regarding evidence between quantitative and qualitative methods.

Qualitative Methods in Occupational Therapy Research: An Application

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Cook Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Juvenile Arthritis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
The Relationship

Recent occupational therapy literature has pointed to significant similarities in the principles of qualitative research methods and the underlying assumptions and values of our profession. This article presents an overview of qualitative methods, an analysis of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative approaches in social and cultural research, and a brief discussion of the issues of reliability, validity, and researcher objectivity in qualitative research. The application of qualitative methods in a research project on juvenile arthritis is used to illustrate an exploration of the importance of such methods to occupational therapy theory and practice.

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