Join the Department of Politic al Science as we celebrate the launch of Professor Alan Jacobs' new book\, Integrated Inferences: Causal Models for Qualitative and Mixed-Method R esearch.
Integrated Inferences was co-written with Professor Macartan Humphreys of W ZB Berlin Social Science Center.
The event will begin at 2:30pm with a short presentation on the book in Green College Coach House\, followed by a reception at 3:00pm with a cash bar and appetizers in Green College Pian o Lounge (next to the Coach House).
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There is a growing consensus in the so cial sciences on the virtues of research strategies that combine quantitati ve with qualitative tools of inference.
Integrated Inferences develops a framework for using causal models and Bayesian updating for qualitative and mixed-method s research. By making\, updating\, and querying causal models\, researchers are able to integrate information from different data sources while connec ting theory and empirics in a far more systematic and transparent manner th an standard qualitative and quantitative approaches allow.
This book provides an introduction to fundamental principles of causal inference and Bayesian updating and shows how these tools can be used to implement and ju stify inferences using within-case (process tracing) evidence\, correlation al patterns across many cases\, or a mix of the two.
The authors also demonstrate how causal models can guide research design\, informing choice s about which cases\, observations\, and mixes of methods will be most usef ul for addressing any given question.
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Alan M. Jacobs (Ph.D. Harvard\, 2004) is Head of Department and a Professor of Political Science specializing in the comparative political economy of advanced industrialized democracies\, the politics of public policy\, political behavior\, and qualitative and m ixed methodology. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the comp arative politics of inequality\, qualitative research methods\, and researc h design.
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