Beyond Story-Telling : Designing Case Study Research in International Environmental Policy
Beyond Story-Telling : Designing Case Study Research in International Environmental Policy
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超越讲故事:设计国际环境政策案例研究
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2008
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T. Bernauer
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R. Mitchell;T. Bernauer
学者们采用了一系列方法来探讨国际环境政治与政策。从数量上探讨这一问题的人数很少，但仍在增加(Sprint z和Vaahtoranta，1994年；Underdal，2001年；Mitchell，2002a)。然而，大多数人使用了定性的方法。在这样做的过程中，他们的目标是描述性的(已经发生了什么？)、预测性的(将发生什么？)、规范性的(应该发生什么？)还是解释性的(是什么导致了这一点？)。与国际关系界的其他人一样，IEP学者在理论倾向上也各不相同，沿着建构主义-理性主义的连续体(Ruggie 1998)。学者们不同的目标和倾向也引发了关于定性研究可以实现什么，以及应该努力实现什么的争论。这些辩论不太可能很快得到解决，我们也不希望在这里这样做。我们认为，如果IEP学者作为一个群体而不是作为个人使用一系列方法，他们更有可能准确和充分地理解IEP的复杂性。我们的目标是帮助那些IEP的学生和学者，至少在某些时候，他们使用定性的方法来追求理性主义范式下的解释目标。对现有国际环境问题、进程、谈判或协议的描述性分析以及对替代政策的规范性分析显然在IEP中发挥着重要的政治和智力作用。我们的论证仅限于指出，它们通常对我们理解因果关系的贡献很小。为了方便世博会-
Scholars have employed a range of methods to explore international environmental politics and policy (IEP). A small, but increasing, number have approached the subject quantitatively (Sprinz and Vaahtoranta 1994; Underdal 2001; Mitchell 2002a). Most, however, have used qualitative methods. In doing so, they have varied in whether their goals are descriptive (what did happen?), predictive (what will happen?), normative (what should happen?), or explanatory (what made this happen?). Like the rest of the international relations community, IEP scholars also vary in theoretical proclivities, ranging along the constructivist-rationalist continuum (Ruggie 1998). Scholars’ different goals and proclivities have also led to debates about what qualitative research can, and should try to, accomplish. These debates are unlikely to be resolved soon, nor do we aspire to do so here. We believe that IEP scholars are more likely to understand the complexities of IEP accurately and fully if they use, as a community if not as individuals, a range of methods. Our goal is to aid those IEP students and scholars who, at least some of the time, use qualitative methods to pursue explanatory goals within a rationalist paradigm. Descriptive analyses of existing international environmental issues, processes, negotiations, or agreements and prescriptive analyses of alternative policies clearly play important political and intellectual roles in IEP. Our argument is limited to noting that they usually contribute little to our understanding of causal relationships. For ease of expo-