[Interpretationandmethods] Non-variables-based security studies

[Ed Schatz]

I could be wrong, but it strikes me that the specific question about
purposive "sampling" might not be directly addressed in subfield-specific
literature. Be that as it may, for the more general question about
non-variables research, I would add (to what Navdeep offered): 

 

Vincent Pouliot, "'Sobjectivism': Toward a Constructivist Methodology,"
International Studies Quarterly 51 (2), 2007: 359-384

 

The Pouliot piece uses an extended example from security studies.

Ed

 

 

 

 

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Navdeep Mathur
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Here are some refs on the topic. 

Haas, P.M. and Haas, E.B. (2002) 'Pragmatic constructivism and the study of
international institutions'. 

Millennium 31(3): 573-602. 

 

Hopf, T. (1998) 'The promise of constructivism in international relations
theory'.

International Security 23(1): 171-200, 
 

Checkel, J. (1998) 'The constructivist turn in IR theory'. 

World Politics 50(2): 324-48. 

Checkel, J.T (2004) 'Social constructivisms in global and European
polities'. 

Review of International Studies 30(3): 229-44.



Best,  Navdeep

Dvora Yanow wrote:



Colleagues,

I am wondering if any of you (Patrick, Cecelia, Claire, Ido, others?) might
help with a question that has come up.

I am looking for sources that would help support an argument on behalf of a
non-variables approach to an issue in security studies.  Specifically, the
research in question is based on 12 interviews, selected via purposive
"sampling" (I would prefer to use the term exposure).  Reviewers are asking
for clarification of the dependent and indep. variables, as well as about
"selection bias" because of the small sample size.

Peri and I take up the matter of interpretive research as
non-variables-based research in various intro. sections of Interpretation
and Method, as well as in chs. 4 and 5; and other chapters provide examples.

But I'm wondering:  can someone point me to works in security studies
itself, or perhaps in IR or Comparative Government more broadly, that would
help advance/support a non-variables argument?

Cecelia, I don't have your book at hand -- do you and Audie engage this
question there?  If so, can you point me to the ch. or pages?

Dvora Yanow

 





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