extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used in this field of research. We investigate existing methodologies and …

Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee … for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic techniques is on the rise. To date attention has been focused on … techniques for meta-analysis, with little attention paid to the preliminary step of bringing the available research findings …

Subnational comparative research has received increasing attention as a method that is academically rigorous and offers … researched and compared are seldom discussed in a meaningful way in academic circles. Even though a research design may itself be … continue, we consider the following basic question: How do we actually know that a specific case suits a particular research …