Small and Large-N Comparative Solutions

September 22-23 2005

Programme

IDS, 121

Thursday 22nd September

11.00-11.30 Introduction

• John Holmwood, Paul Taggart

11.30-12.45 Panel 1 Keynote Address

• Charles Ragin (UC Berkeley) 'The Challenge of Small-N Research'

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Panel 2

• Jackie O'Reilly (University of Sussex) "Four Frameworks of Analysis: Approaches in Political Economy"
• Chris Pickvance (University of Kent) "Four Varieties of Comparison"
• Benoit Rihoux (Universite Catholique de Louvain) "Configurational comparative methods: their added value for policy-oriented research"
  

16.00-17.30 Panel 3

• Charles Lees (University of Sheffield) "'We are all comparativists now'. Why and how single-country scholarship must adapt and incorporate the comparative politics approach"
• Rosemary Crompton (City University) "Comparing Portugal and the UK"
• Mick Dunford (Sussex) "Linking Aggregate and Case Study/ Micro Research (often in a comparative context) and Often Using Mixed Methods"
  

19.00-22.00 Conference Dinner Quod

Friday 23rd September

09.30 -11.00 Panel 4

• Jan-Erik Lane (University of Geneva) "Realism and Methodology in Political Science: Our need for Generalisations"
• Barry Cooper (University of Durham) "On Applying Ragin's Crisp and Fuzzy Set QCA to Large Datasets"

11.00-13.00 Panel 5

• Thomas Poguntke (University of Birmingham) & Paul Webb (University of Sussex) 'Comparing Presidentialisation'?
• Hilary Silver (Brown) "The Methodology of Doing Social Exclusion of Homelessness"
• Adrian Favell (UCLA) "Methods of Mobility: Reflections on the PIONEUR and Eurostars/Eurocities projects on mobile European populations"

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Roundtable

• Charles Ragin, Paul Webb, Jackie O'Reilly