Historical and comparative research

Question 1

Different types of research? (4)

Answer 1

• Historical event research
• Historical process research
• Cross-sectional comparative research
• Comparative historical research

Question 2

Historical event research?

Answer 2

Events in a short historical period

Question 3

Historical process research?

Answer 3

(Longer study) Longitudinal tracing of a sequence of events

Question 4

Comparative historical research?

Answer 4

Longitudinal analysis about historical processes between multiple cases

Question 5

Challenges? (3)

Answer 5

• Documents may have been partially damage or lost
• Available evidence might be biased
• Feelings of individuals might be hard/impossible to reconstruct

Question 6

Case orientation? (1 +4)

Answer 6

Tries to somehow locate how a certain event took place

• Holism
• Conjunctural consideration
• Temporality
• Narrative explanations

Question 7

Event structure analysis?

Answer 7

Relies on systematic coding of key events or characteristics to identify the underlying structure of actions in a chronology of events

Question 8

What are the steps of event structure analysis? (5)

Answer 8

• Classify information into discrete events
• Order events into a temporal sequence
• Identify event chained together
• Represent connections between events (ex. Diagram)
• Eliminate steps that aren’t essential to explain event

Question 9

Process tracing?

Answer 9

The systematic exam to find causal links through which two events are linked

Question 10

Within-case methods of comparative historical analysis

Answer 10

Tool of analysis

Question 11

Cross sectional comparative research?

Answer 11

Analysis collected from a certain population at a specific point in time