2175-6236-edreal-42-03-00899-gf1.jpg (25.36 kB)
Comparative Case Studies
figure
posted on 2018-12-26, 05:12 authored by Lesley Bartlett, Frances VavrusAbstract: 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.