John Gerring's Case Study Analysis

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The nexus between the Dragon Head Enterprises and the Torch Programs and determinates of developmental policy is quite complex. To quantify and test the amount of variables and their interactions would be beyond the scope of this analysis. As a case study method avoids the task of distilling complex phenomena into “standard regression formats necessary for a cross case econometric approach” it was chosen for the methodological approach of this work. In this context John Gerring’s delineation of a case study as: “an intensive study of a single unit for the purpose of understanding a larger class of (similar) units,” where a unit (case) is taken to be “a spatially bounded phenomenon . . . observed at a single point in time or over some delimited period of time” will serve as the methodological …show more content…

The difficulty of even taking in observational data as described in the idealized form in the scientific method creates a methodological quandary for practitioners of the political sciences and economics i.e. observing disparate and ethereal criteria like evaluating the usefulness of two different policy packages with different sets of data points. Thus cases were chosen to in order to establish a strong foundation for the possible generation of a hypothesis for later testing on the relationship between these policy styles and the determinates of developmental policy making in China. Case study analysis is particularly important in new lines of academic questions as a preliminary testing ground for hypothesis before the expense and effort are expended on quantitative studies to test the generalizability of your findings. In order to test the validity of the bottom-up model a case study analysis of two developmental policy packages were chosen for both practical and theoretical

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