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Levite, Ariel

Levy, Jack

Lijphart, Arend

Lipset, Seymour Martin

Lipson, Charles

Litwak, Robert

Logic of Confirmation

Logic of Discovery

Logic of Inference

Lowi, Theodore

Lustick, Ian

Macridis, Roy

Macrocorrelation

Macrolevel Social Mechanisms

Mahoney, James

Maoz, Zeev

Martin, Lisa

Maturation Effects

Measurement Error

Merton, Robert

Method of Agreement

Method of Difference

Method of Elimination

Methodology (Trends in)

Microcorrelation

Microfoundations

Microlevel Social Mechanisms

Middle-Range Theory; see also Contingent Generalizations

Mill, John Stuart

Mill’s Methods: see Method of Agreement; Method of Difference

Mink, Louis

Modus-Operandi Method

Mohr, Lawrence

Most Different Research Design

Most Similar Research Design

Most-Likely Case

Multicollinearity

Multimethod Research

Mundt, Robert

Nagel, Ernst

Necessary Conditions

Newsom, David

Njølstad, Olav

Nichols, Elizabeth

Observable Implications

O’Donnell, Guillermo

Omitted Variables

Ordeshook, Peter

Outliers see Deviant Cases

Owen, John

Paige, Jeffrey

Path Dependency

Pelz, Stephen

Peterson, Susan

Philosophy of Science-

Plausibility Probe

Popper, Karl

Plurality of Causes: see Equifinality

Posen, Barry

Postmodernism

Prediction

Probabilistic Explanation; see also Inductive Statistical Model, Statistical

Relevance Model

Process Tracing

and Causal Mechanisms

see also Historical Explanation

Property Space

Przeworski, Adam

Putnam, Robert

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Qualitative Methods Section, American Political Science Association, x

Qualitative Research Methods, Consortium on

Ragin, Charles

Random Assignment

Ray, James Lee

Reliability

Research Design

Five Tasks of

Research Puzzle

Rittberger, Volker

Roberts, Clayton

Rosenau, James

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich

Russett, Bruce

Sagan, Scott

Salmon, Wesley

Sartori, Giovanni

Schmitter, Philippe

Schultz, Kenneth

Schweller, Randall

Scientific Realism

Scope Conditions

Scriven, Michael

Selection Bias

Selection on the Dependent Variable

Sewell, William

Shafer, Michael

Singer, J. David

Single Case Studies

Skocpol, Theda

Small, Melvin

Smelser, Neil

Smoking Gun Tests

Smoke, Richard

Snidal, Duncan

Snyder, Jack

Somers, Margaret

Specification of Variables

Spuriousness

Stanley, Julian

Statistical Methods ; see also Selection Bias and Degrees of Freedom

Statistical Relevance Model

Stedman, Stephen

Stephens, Evelyne Huber

Stephens, John

Sterling, Brent

Stern, Eric

Straw-In-The-Wind Tests

Substruction

Swedburg, Richard

Tarrow, Sidney

Teaching Case Study Methods

Tetlock, Philip

Teune, Henry

Theory Development

Theory Testing

Threats to Validity

Threshold Effects

Tilly, Charles

Tipping Points

Trachtenberg, Marc

Trow, Martin

Truman, David

Truth Tables

Typological Theory

Defined

and Case Selection

and Deductive Theory Development

and Inductive Theory Development

Limitations of

and Process Tracing

and Reducing the Typological Space

Typologies

Underdetermination

Unger, Danny

Unit Homogeneity

Validity

Van Evera, Stephen

Variable-Oriented Approaches

Variables

Confounding

Dependent

Independent

Intervening

Omitted: see Omitted Variables

Verba, Sidney

Vertzberger, Yaacov

Walker, Stephen

Walt, Stephen

Waltz, Kenneth

Weber, Max

Weber, Steven

Wendt, Alexander

Whitehead, Lawrence

Wickham-Crowley, Timothy

Within-Case Analysis: see Process Tracing, Congruence Testing, Counterfactual Analysis

Yee, Albert

Yoffie, David

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Karen Motley, executive editor

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