Methods

Interviews

• Weiss, Robert S. 1994. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York: The Free Press ebook
  • See in particular Ch. 4 and 7 (specifically “How you write about your respondents”)

Case Studies

• Yin, R. K. (2009). Case study research: Design and methods (Vol. 5) ebook
• Gerring, J. (2006). Case study research: Principles and practices. Cambridge university press. pdf
• Seawright, J., & Gerring, J. (2008). Case selection techniques in case study research: A menu of qualitative and quantitative options. Political research quarterly, 61(2), 294-308. pdf
• Soifer, H. (2021). Shadow Cases in Comparative Research. Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, 18(2), 9–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4046562

Fieldwork

• Krause, P., & Szekely, O. (Eds.). (2020). Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science. Columbia University Press. ebook
• Dougherty, M. V. (2021). The use of confidentiality and anonymity protections as a cover for fraudulent fieldwork data. Research Ethics, 17470161211018256. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161211018257

Validty / Reliability

• Mcdonald, N., Schoenebeck, S., & Forte, A. (n.d.). Reliability and Inter-rater Reliability in Qualitative Research: Norms and Guidelines for CSCW and HCI Practice. 23.

Qualitative Analysis

• Deterding, N. M., & Waters, M. C. (2021). Flexible Coding of In-depth Interviews: A Twenty-first-century Approach. Sociological Methods & Research, 50(2), 708–739. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124118799377

Process Tracing

• Checkel, J. T. (2008). Process Tracing. In A. Klotz & D. Prakash (Eds.), Qualitative Methods in International Relations: A Pluralist Guide (pp. 114–127). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584129_8
• Collier, D. (2011). Understanding Process Tracing. PS: Political Science & Politics, 44(4), 823–830. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096511001429
• Mahoney, J. (2012) The Logic of Process Tracing Tests in the Social Sciences" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0049124112437709?

Ethnography

• Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (2011). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=k83BlbBHubAC&oi=fnd&pg=PT3&dq=emerson+ethnographic+field+notes&ots=eMXtknnKRl&sig=iMrJhfk_dCIvdZqTqXMCZ2A8cmg
  • This should be the first thing you read
• Geertz, C. (2000). Deep play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight. In Culture and politics (pp. 175-201). Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40971228.pdf
  • This should be the second thing you read
• Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 95–117.
  • This should the the third thing you read
• Burrell, J. (2009). The Field Site as a Network: A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research. Field Methods, 21(2), 181–199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X08329699
• Bonini, T., & Gandini, A. (2020). The Field as a Black Box: Ethnographic Research in the Age of Platforms. Social Media + Society, 6(4), 2056305120984477. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120984477
• Seaver, N. (2017). Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Big Data & Society, 4(2), 2053951717738104. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717738104
• Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court | Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. (n.d.) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23968
• Duneier, M. (2011). How Not to Lie with Ethnography. Sociological Methodology, 41(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9531.2011.01249.x
• Lubet, S. (2018). Interrogating ethnography: Why evidence matters. pdf
• • This is a book that Lubet critiques in detail - it is worth reading alongside Lubet's critique - Bosk, C. L. (2008). What Would You Do?: Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography. University of Chicago Press.

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

• Hanckel, B., Petticrew, M., Thomas, J., & Green, J. (2021). The use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to address causality in complex systems: A systematic review of research on public health interventions. BMC Public Health, 21(1), 877. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10926-2
• Invernizzi, D. C., Locatelli, G., Brookes, N., & Davis, A. (2020). Qualitative comparative analysis as a method for project studies: The case of energy infrastructure. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 133, 110314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110314
• Legewie, N. (2013). An Introduction to Applied Data Analysis with Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-14.3.1961
• Mollinga, P. P., & Gondhalekar, D. (2014). Finding Structure in Diversity: A Stepwise Small-N/Medium-N Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach for Water Resources Management Research. 7(1), 21.
• Park, Y., & Denford, J. (2018). Set-Theoretic Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for IS Research. AMCIS 2018 Proceedings. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2018/Workshops/Presentations/4
• Schulte, F. (2018). Ethnic Conflict Regulation Through Territorial Autonomy – A Configurational Analysis of Success and Failure. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/b6yxf
• Verweij, S., & Gerrits, L. M. (2013). Understanding and researching complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Evaluating transportation infrastructure projects. Evaluation, 19(1), 40–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389012470682

Randomized Controlled Experiments

• Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials. (2018). Social Science & Medicine, 210, 2–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.005

Transparency

• Bleich, E., & Pekkanen, R. J. (2015). Data access, research transparency, and interviews: The interview methods appendix. Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association’s QMMR Section, 13(1), 8-13. pdf
• Tong, A., Sainsbury, P., & Craig, J. (2007). Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): A 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 19(6), 349–357. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzm042