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/programs/cqrm

2011 - 2012 Officers

President (2011-2013):
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 (2011-2013):
Jeffrey T. Checkel
Simon Fraser University
School for International Studies
515 West Hastings St
Suite 7200
Vancouver V6B 5K3
Canada
jtcheckel@sfu.ca

President-Elect (2011-2013):
Lisa Wedeen
University of Chicago
Political Science
5828 S. University Avenue
Chicago IL 60637
l-wedeen@uchicago.edu

Secretary-Treasurer (2009-2012):
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:
Robert Kaufman Adcock
George Washington University
Political Science
2115 G St NW
Monroe Hall 440
Washington DC 20052
adcockr@gwu.edu

Executive Committee Members:
Stephen Hanson, College of William & Mary (2010-2012)
Elisabeth Wood, Yale University (2010-2012)
Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford (2011-2013)
Benjamin Smith, University of Florida (2011-2013)

2012 Nominating Committee Members:
Nina Tannenwald, Brown University
Carsten Schneider, Central European University
Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania
Diania Kapiszewski, University of California, Irvine

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 2011 will be eligible for the 2012 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 2011 copyright date will be eligible for the award presented at the 2012 APSA meeting.

To be considered for the awards, nominations must be received by January 31, 2012. Nominations for the awards (including four copies of the nominated book, article/chapter or APSA paper) should be sent to the Qualitative and Multi-method Research section award coordinator:

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