10.6084/m9.figshare.7515254.v1 Lesley Bartlett Lesley Bartlett Frances Vavrus Frances Vavrus Comparative Case Studies SciELO journals 2018 Case Study Research Methods Comparison Context 2018-12-26 05:12:32 Figure https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/figure/Comparative_Case_Studies/7515254 <div><p>Abstract: What is a case study and what is it good for? In this article, we review dominant approaches to case study research and point out their limitations. Next, we propose a new approach - the comparative case study approach - that attends simultaneously to global, national, and local dimensions of case-based research. We contend that new approaches are necessitated by conceptual shifts in the social sciences, specifically in relation to culture, context, space, place, and comparison itself.</p></div>