Comparative Historical Analysis

Emanuele Ferragina (1)

1 CRIS - Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Comparative historical analysis combines two major methodological tools of social science, comparison (the study of similarities and differences across cases) and history (the analysis of processes of change in their temporal dimension), to help explain large scale outcomes on a variety of topics. It is particularly useful to account for the definition of public policies (policy framing and policy change).

Mots clés: qualitative method; historical analysis; similarities; differences; history; macro; comparison; critical junctures; path dependency

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Science politique

Emanuele Ferragina. Comparative Historical Analysis. LIEPP Methods Brief n°23, 2023. ⟨hal-04108199⟩