Qualitative and Multi-method Research

Membership

Section List

The Organized Section on Qualitative and Multi-method Research seeks to promote research and training focused on the several branches of methodology associated with the qualitative tradition, broadly defined. The section also strives for an integrated understanding of these diverse methods and of their relationship to other branches of methodology, including quantitative methods.

Website: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/APSA__39;s_Qualitative_and_Multi-Method_Research_Section/

2009 - 2010 Officers

President:
Colin Elman
Syracuse University
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Maxwell School
338 Eggers Hall
Syracuse NY 13244-1020
celman@maxwell.syr.edu

President-Elect:
Gary Goertz
University of Arizona
Political Science
315 Social Sciences Bldg
P.O. Box 210027
Tucson AZ 85721-0027
ggoertz@email.arizona.edu

Vice-President:
Peter A. Hall
Harvard University
Center for European Studies
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge MA 02138
phall@fas.harvard.edu

Secretary-Treasurer:
Renee de Nevers
Syracuse University
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Maxwell School
333 Eggers Hall
Syracuse NY 13244-1020
denevers@maxwell.syr.edu

Newsletter Editor:
Gary Goertz
University of Arizona
Political Science
315 Social Sciences Bldg
P.O. Box 210027
Tucson AZ 85721-0027
ggoertz@email.arizona.edu

At Large Executive Committee Members:
Page Fortna, (2008-2010), Columbia University
Dan Carpenter, (2008-2010), Harvard University
Steve Van Evera, (2009-2011), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara Geddes, (2009-2011), University of California, Los Angeles

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

The Alexander L. George Article Award honors Alexander George's contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design, and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article. The award will be given to an article or book chapter published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented, with the date of publication being established by the journal issue for articles and the copyright date of the book for chapters. Articles or chapters published in 2009 will be eligible for the 2010 award.

The Sage Paper Award honors Sara and George McCune, who founded and sustained Sage Publications as a leading publisher of social science methodology -- including very centrally qualitative methods. This award will be given to a paper presented at the previous Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

The Giovanni Sartori Book Award honors Giovanni Sartori's work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. The award is intended to encompass two types of contributions: new research on methodology per se, i.e., studies that introduce specific methodological innovations or that synthesize and integrate methodological ideas in a way that is in itself a methodological contribution; and substantive work that is an exemplar for the application of qualitative methods.

This award may be granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented. The copyright date of a book will establish the relevant year. Hence, books with a 2009 copyright date will be eligible for the award presented at the 2010 APSA meeting.

To be considered for the awards, nominations must be received by January 31, 2010. Nominations for the awards (including four copies of the nominated book, article/chapter or APSA paper) should be sent to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Qualitative and Multi-method Research section:

Colin Elman
Syracuse University
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Maxwell School
338 Eggers Hall
Syracuse NY 13244-1020
celman@maxwell.syr.edu