Analytic Induction for Social Research

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This book explores analytic induction, an approach to the analysis of cross—case evidence on qualitative outcomes that has deep roots in sociology. A popular research technique in the early decades of empirical sociology, analytic induction differs fundamentally as a method of social research from conventional variation—base...