Comparative-Historical Methodology
Comparative-Historical Methodology
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比较历史方法论
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2004
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通讯作者：
J. Mahoney
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J. Mahoney
过去十年的特点是出现了一个重要的和不断增长的文献比较历史的方法。这些文献提供了超越主流统计分析中现有技术的因果和描述性推断的方法学工具。在因果推理方面，存在新的程序来检验关于必要和充分原因的假设，这些程序解决了主流方法论者可能对必要和充分原因持有的怀疑态度。同样，新技术可用于分析涉及复杂时间过程的假设，包括路径依赖序列。在描述性推理领域，比较历史文献为概念分析和实现测量有效性提供了重要工具。鉴于这些贡献，比较历史方法值得在社会科学方法论的一般领域中占据中心地位。
The last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing literature concerning comparative-historical methods. This literature offers methodological tools for causal and descriptive inference that go beyond the techniques currently available in mainstream statistical analysis. In terms of causal inference, new procedures exist for testing hypotheses about necessary and sufficient causes, and these procedures address the skepticism that mainstream methodologists may hold about necessary and sufficient causation. Likewise, new techniques are available for analyzing hypotheses that refer to complex temporal processes, including path-dependent sequences. In the area of descriptive inference, the comparative-historical literature offers important tools for concept analysis and for achieving measurement validity. Given these contributions, comparative-historical methods merit a central place within the general field of social science methodology.