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Designing Social Inquiry
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Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (or KKV) is an influential 1994 book written by Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba that lays out guidelines for conducting qualitative research. The central thesis of the book is that qualitative and quantitative research share the same "logic of inference." The book primarily applies lessons from regression-oriented analysis to qualitative research, arguing that the same logics of causal inference can be used in both types of research.
The text is often referred to as KKV within social science disciplines. The book has been the subject of intense debate among social scientists. The 2004 book Rethinking Social Inquiry, edited by Henry E. Brady and David Collier, is an influential summary of responses to KKV.
Robert Keohane recounts the origins of KKV as follows, Designing Social Inquiry was not generated by puzzles of world politics. Instead, it was the result of serendipity. Sid Verba and I were friends, and when I joined the Harvard Government Department in 1985, he said that we should teach a course together. I regarded this remark as a welcoming pleasantry, typical of Sid's grace and warmth. Three years later I became chair of the department and in my first year as chair was forced to listen to 24 job talks. Most of these talks were dead on arrival, since the speaker had made fundamental mistakes in research design. I complained to colleagues, including Sid, and Gary King. Gary said the three of us should teach a course on research design together... I agreed, and we taught the course the following year... After the semester was over, Gary said: “We should teach the course again. And this time, we should write a book on this subject.” The next year we met regularly for a bag lunch, discussing not only themes of the course but drafts that one of us—most often Gary, which is why his name appears first on the book—had produced.
The goal of the book is guide researchers in producing valid causal inferences in social science research.
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