Cross-National Research Methodology and Practice

<p><em>Cross-National Research Methodology and Practice</em> offers practical guidance for relative newcomers to cross-national research by analysing and evaluating the research process by focusing strongly on best practice in terms of methods and management. It raises a number of important issues for cross-national research which have been given insufficient attention in discussions of methods and practice. </p><p>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. </p><p>The volume includes practical examples of cross-national research projects which illustrate different methods ranging from:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>biographical and documentary approaches </li> <li>the collection and analysis of socio-demographic and attitudinal survey data either carried out by lone researchers or teams of researchers </li> <li>the exploration of internet sources and application of computer analysis to quantitative and qualitative data.</li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>This collection provides a firm emphasis on methodological issues relating to context values and discourse. </p>