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A Case for Cases

Comparative Narratives in Sociological Explanation

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, p.abell{at}lse.ac.uk

When case studies are constructed as narratives, then causal explanation can be achieved without either comparison or generalization. Narratives provide paths of causal links on a chronology of actions or events. The links, in turn, can be studied as Bayesian inferences generating Bayesian narratives. The causal paths in a narrative have a Boolean structure.

Key Words: Bayesian narrative • causal explanation • Boolean analysis

This version was published on August 1, 2009

Sociological Methods & Research, Vol. 38, No. 1, 38-70 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0049124109339372


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