Part one. The methodological context of case-based methods 1. Complexity and case - David L. Harvey 2. The contextualist approach to social science methodology - Lars Mjoset 3. Reflexivity, realism and the process of casing - Bob Carter and Alison Sealey 4. Single-case probabilities - Malcolm Williams and Wendy Dyer 5. Complex realist and configurational approaches to cases: a radical synthesis - David Byrne Part two. Methods and techniques of case-based research 6. Explanatory typologies in qualitative analysis - Colin Elman 7. Introducing cluster analysis: what can it teach us about the case? - Emma Uprichard 8. Visualising types: the potential of correspondence analysis - Dianne Phillips and John Phillips 9. How classification works, or doesn't: the case of chronic pain - Emma Whelan Quantitative approaches to case-based method 10. Case-centred methods and quantitative analysis - Ray Kent 11. The logic and assumptions of MDSO-MSDO designs - Gisèle De Meur and Alain Gottcheiner 12. The case for qualitative comparative analysis (QCA): adding leverage for thick cross-case comparison - Benoît Rihoux and Bojana Lobe 13. On the duality of cases and variables: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) 14. Using cluster analysis, qualitative comparative analysis and Nvivo in relation to the establishment of causal configurations with Pre-existing Large-N Datasets: Machining Hermeneutics - David Byrne Qualitative approaches to Case-Based Research 15. Computer-Based Qualitative Methods in case study research - Nigel Fielding and Richard Warnes 16. Extending the Ethnographic case study - Seán Ó Riain 17. Scope in case study research - Gary Goertz and James Mahoney 18. Small-N Acess cases to refine theories of social exclusion and access to socially excluded individuals and groups - Nick Emmel and Kahryn Hughes 19. Using comparative data: a systems approach to a multiple case study - Fred Carden Part three. Case-based methods in disciplines and fields 20. Making the most of an historical case study: configuration, sequence, casing, and the US Old-age Pension Movement - Edwin Amenta 21. Poetry and history: the case for literary evidence - John Walton 22. Cultural case studies - Albert J. Bergesen 23. Social interactions and the demand for sport: cluster analysis in economics - Paul Downward and Joseph Riordan 24. The proper relationship of comparative-historical analysis to statistical analysis: subordination, integration, or separation? James Mahoney and P. Larkin Terrie 25. Case studies and the configurational analysis of organizational phenomena - Peer C. Fiss 26. The case in medicine - Frances Griffiths 27. Team-based aggregation of qualitative case study data in health care contexts: challenges and learning - Sue Dopson, Ewan Ferlie, Louise Fitzgerald and Louise Locock 28. Working with cases in development contexts: some insights from an outlier - Philippa Bevan 29. Non-nested and nested cases in a socioeconomic village study - Wendy Olsen 30. Causality and interpretation in qualitative policy-related research - David Byrne, Wendy Olsen and Sandra Duggan 31. Reflections on casing and case-oriented research - Charles C. Ragin