Affiliation:
1. Political Science, University of Chicago
2. Law, Northern Illinois University
3. Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
Abstract
As is true of many social-scientific traditions, political history is populated by scholars who run the methodological gamut, from those who rely on finely textured narrative accounts to those who employ advanced computational tools, statistical analyses, and formal models. But, as this chapter argues, what is distinctive about political history is that its methodological pluralism is a feature of the field in aggregate, rather than a characteristic of its most influential component studies. This macro-level pluralism has helped political historians to address some of the fundamental challenges of working with historical data. Perhaps more importantly, it represents a profitable alternative to the way political scientists have tended to think about mixed-methods research.
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