Doing Qualitative Research in Politics

Angela Kachuyevski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arcadia University, USA.Lisa M. Samuel is Academic Director and Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies, USA.

• 1. Doing Qualitative Research in Politics: Building Theory and Formulating Policy.- 2. Case-Driven Theory-Building in Comparative Democratization: The Heuristics of Venezuela’s “Democratic Purgatory”.- 3. The Return of the Qualitative Case Study: The Impact of the Presidency and Congress on US Policy toward North Korea.- 4. Ethnic Conflict Management in Eastern Europe: Structured, Focused Comparison and the Case for Multidimensional Prevention.- 5. Combating modeling “at the expense of relevance”: Moving the Study of Political Behavior past Large-N Survey Analysis in American Politics.- 6. Framing Infectious Diseases: Effective Policy Implementation and U.S. Public Opinion.- 7. Searching for Justice in International Trade Negotiations: A Feminist-Informed Multi-Sited Ethnographic Study of the Commonwealth Caribbean.- 8. Negotiating Local Cultural Space in a Global World: Joint Efforts at Meaning-Making and the Reconfiguration of Normative Womanhood in India.- 9. Policy Embodied: HIV, Sex Work, and Everyday Risks in the Slums of Kampala.