Qualitative and Multi-method Research

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: www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/cqrm/QualitativeMethodsAPSA.html

2007 - 2009 Officers

President: 
John Gerring
Boston University
Department of Political Science
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA  02215
jgering@bu.edu

President Elect:
Colin Elman
Arizona State University
Department of Political Science
Box 873902
Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
colin.elman@asu.edu

Vice-President:
Margaret E. Keck
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Political Science
338 Mergenthaler Hall
Baltimore MD 21218-2685
mkeck@jhu.edu

Secretary-Treasurer:
Colin Elman
Arizona State University
Department of Political Science
Box 873902
Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
colin.elman@asu.edu

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

Executive Committee:
Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University (2006-2008)
Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine (2006-2008)
Peri Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah
Rose McDermott, University of California, Santa Barbara

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 2007 will be eligible for the 2008 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 2007 copyright date will be eligible for the award presented at the 2008 APSA meeting. 

To be considered for the awards, nominations must be received by January 31, 2008.  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
Arizona State University
Department of Political Science
P. O. Box 873902
Tempe, AZ  85287-3902
colin.elman@asu.edu