The Practice of Multi-Method Research : Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Can interviews or a focus group improve the causal inferences drawn from experiments?Can quantitative text analysis help develop workflows as a qualitative scholar?Can we learn from a single case in a way that helps us with a statistical model?There is much to learn from the careful use of all these methodological combinations. The Practice of Multi-Method Research is aimed at practical researchers: from undergraduates preparing for an honors thesis, to graduate students designing a dissertation, through to seasoned scholars considering a new approach for their next set of studies.It offers a hands-on, practical guide to combining research across various methodological traditions: qualitative, machine learning, and quantitative approaches to concepts and measurement, adding quantitative and data-science components to process-tracing designs and to qualitative case studies in general, how qualitative research can strengthen regression-type designs, and how to mix qualitative elements with experiments. .