ERC Starting Grant · 2016
Qualitative and Quantitative Social Science: Unifying the Logic of Causal Inference?
Good public policy should make society healthier, happier, safer, and more productive. Social scientists can help: they can look for the causes that promote or prevent these outcomes. Some do this by building models, which they test against large datasets using statistical tools. Others use non-formal tools, applied to a small number of cases: tracing processes, comparing cases, interviewing participants, writing ethnographies. Policymakers can then try to weigh up all this 'quantitative' and 'qualitative' evidence in order to judge the likely effects of a policy. There are established ways to weigh up the evidence from multiple quantitative studies, and for organizing the evidence from…
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