Quantifying the Qualitative - Drozdova, Katya

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Quantifying the Qualitative by Katya Drozdova and Kurt Taylor Gaubatz presents a systematic approach to comparative case analysis based on insights from information theory. This new method, which requires minimal quantitative skills, helps students, policymakers, professionals, and scholars learn more from comparative cases. The approach avoids the limitations of traditional statistics in the small-n context and allows analysts to systematically assess and compare the impact of a set of factors on case outcomes with easy-to-use analytics. Rigorous tools reduce bias, improve the knowledge gained from case studies, and provide straightforward metrics for effectively communicating results to a range of readers and leaders.

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Ekaterina Katya Drozdova, PhD, is an associate professor of Political Science in the School of Business, Government, and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. She has lectured extensively and taught courses on subjects ranging from Research Methods in Social Science to Global Security, Strategy, History, Information, and Political Economy as well as carried out a number of research projects in these areas which successfully utilized both qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Professor Drozdova has earned a PhD and MPhil in Information Systems from New York University's (NYU) Stern School of Business, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences...

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Ekaterina Katya Drozdova, PhD, is an assistant professor of political science in the School of Business, Government, and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. She regularly teaches courses on War, Peace, and World Order, Counterterrorism and National Security, Methods of Political Analysis, International Political Economy and The West and the World as well as supervises independent study and honors research projects.

Kurt Taylor Gaubatz, PhD, is an associate professor in the Graduate Program in International Studies at Old Dominion University. In addition to courses in international relations and international law, he regularly teaches research methods and advanced statistics.?