Cross-National Research Methodology and Practice

The volume contains reflexive and theoretically based pieces on the development of contextualization as an approach to cross-national comparative research, on qualitative and quantitative methods, extending to the integration of different methodological approaches.

The volume includes practical examples of cross-national research projects which illustrate different methods ranging from:

• biographical and documentary approaches
• the collection and analysis of socio-demographic and attitudinal survey data either carried out by lone researchers or teams of researchers
• the exploration of internet sources and application of computer analysis to quantitative and qualitative data.

This collection provides a firm emphasis on methodological issues relating to context, values and discourse.