Interest in and use of mixed methods research in the social sciences has grown
tremendously in recent years and has the potential to assist in addressing core challenges …

There is a growing consensus in the social sciences on the virtues of research strategies
that combine quantitative with qualitative tools of inference. Integrated Inferences develops a …

Despite the importance of evidence in educational research and practice, and in social
research generally, explicit attention to this topic is strikingly absent from the mixed methods …

This article provides a systematic and pluralistic theory of causation that fits the kind of
reasoning commonly found in mixed methods research. It encompasses a variety of causal …

The field of epidemiology's current focus on causal inference follows a quantitative approach
and limits research questions to those that are strictly quantifiable. How can epidemiologists …

Social scientists have identified a need to move beyond the analysis of correlation among
variables to the study of causal mechanisms that link them. Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes …

This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now
institutionalized within social science. Rather than suggesting the'mixing'of methods …

Social and behavioral scientists have long used path analysis and related linear structural
equation models (SEMs) to decompose parameters of ordered systems of equations into …

In spring of 2010, Howard Kaplan invited me to compile a volume on sociological
methodology for the Springer series, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. I …

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …