Inclui bibliografia e índice.

I. Introduction 1. Refocusing the discussion of methodology. -- Henry E. Brady, David Collier e Jason Seawright 2. The quest for standards: king, keohane, and Verba's Designig social inquiry. -- David Collier, Jason Seawright, and Geraldo L. Munck II. Critiques of the quantitative template 3. Doing good and doing better: how far does the quantitative template get us?. -- Henry E. Brady 4. Some unfulfilled promise of quantitative imperialism. -- Larry M. Bartels 5. How inference in the social (but not the physical) sciences neglects theoretical animaly. -- Ronald Rgowski 6. Claiming too much: warnings about selection bias. -- David Collier, James Mahoney, e Jason Seawright III. Qualitative Tools 7. Tools for quantitative research. -- Geraldo L. Munck 8. Turning the tables: how case-oriented research challenges variable-oriented research. -- Charles C. Ragin 9. Case studies and the limits of the quantitative worldview. -- Timothy J. McKeown IV. Linking the Quantitative and Qualitative Traditions 10. Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide. -- Sidnwy Tarrow 11. The importance of research design. -- Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba V. Diverses Tools, Shared Standards 12. Critiques, responses, and trade-offs: drawing together the debate. -- David Collier, Henry E. Brady, and Jason Seawright 13. Sources of leverage in causal inference: toward an alternative view of methodology. -- David Collier, Henry E. Brady, and Jason Seawright