The Practice of Multi-Method Research

J. Seawright is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she studies representation, democratic crisis, and multi-method research design. Seawright has written about party-system collapse and democratic crisis in Peru and Venezuela; about the participatory agendas of wealthy people and of billionaires in the US; and about case selection and other topics in multi-method research design. Seawright won the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award of the APSA's Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section in 2018, and is the author of Multi-Method Social Science: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Tools (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Kendra L. Koivu was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico where she studied organized crime, narcotics trafficking, early twentieth century Eurasian politics, statebuilding, political economy, fs/QCA, counterfactual analysis, case selection procedures, and mixed methods research. The award for best paper from the APSA's Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section is named in her memory.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Multi-method concept-making and measurement with Maximilian Weylandt; 3. Process tracing and multi-method research; 4. Multi-method case studies; 5. Regression and similar methods in multi-method research with Daniel J. Galvin; 6. What qualitative research brings to experiments; 7. Conclusion.

'Seawright and Koivu remind us that to fully understand politics we must value the contributions of both qualitative and quantitative methods. They then go one step further, offering concrete methodological guidance for conducting mixed methods work. This volume constitutes an indispensable resource for scholars at all career stages-whether designing their own mixed methods projects or advising others.' Erica S. Simmons, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison