The Case Study Anthology - Softcover

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Robert K. Yin is President of COSMOS Corporation, an applied research and social science firm. Over the years, COSMOS has successfully completed hundreds of projects for federal agencies, state and local agencies, and private foundations.

Outside of COSMOS, Dr. Yin has assisted numerous other research groups, helping to train their field teams or to design research studies. The most recent such engagements have been with The World Bank, the Division of Special Education and disAbility Research at George Mason University, the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes at the Children's National Health System (Washington, DC), and the School of Education, Southern New Hampshire University.

Dr. Yin has authored over 100 publications, including authoring or editing 11 books (not counting the multiple editions of any given book). Earlier editions of the present book have been translated into eight languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Romanian, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese), and a second book on Qualitative Research from Start to Finish (2016) is in its 2nd edition and has been translated into four languages (Chinese, Korean, Swedish, and Portuguese). Dr. Yin received his B.A. in history from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and his Ph.D. in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT.

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"This anthology is very useful. It speaks directly to students. The writing is extraordinarily strong throughout the samples-clear and concise, interesting and insightful, authoritative and accessible. This is a book I will order with enthusiasm as required reading in my course on research design."
-Dr. Larissa A. Grunig, Department of Communication, University of Maryland

The Case Study Anthology, the latest from bestselling author Robert Yin, introduces readers to the world of case study research. It contains 19 carefully chosen and well-edited works, some of which represent excerpts from all-time classic case studies in sociology, political science, and related disciplines. This anthology will help readers to understand how case study research has been conducted-including the current state of the art-and how they might conduct their own case studies. With this in mind, the cases are arranged according to the process of doing case study research:

* Theoretical perspectives and case selection
* The strength of multiple cases
* Quantitative evidence and "embedded" units of analysis
* More illustrations of case study evidence
* Analysis and conclusions

Authors of the cases include many eminent social scientists, including

Graham Allison
Anthony S. Bryk
James S. Coleman
Seymour Martin Lipset
Helen Merrell Lynd
Robert S. Lynd
Ira Magaziner
Richard Neustadt
Everett M. Rogers
Martin Trow
W. Lloyd Warner
Aaron Wildavsky

The Case Study Anthology will be a perfect supplemental text or reference for any research course in the social sciences, including sociology, anthropology, and political science, as well as related practice fields such as education, planning, health, and management.