Suchergebnisse

This e-book is dedicated to looking at qualitative research methods in the Baltic region. This area has experienced rapid economic and political change and qualitative research methods can create original and perceptive methods and frameworks for addressing these challenges

An invitation to reflect generally on past and prospective parties research is appealing to an old-timer. I acknowledge the risk of drawing so much on earlier writing that my essay will be of a kind that I scorned a few decades ago when my senior colleagues repeated themselves. The risk is un-mistakable in my first section where I write about our discipline's historical concern with political parties (Epstein 1986, 9-39). An abbreviated account of that concern, however, provides the intellectual context for the research questions that I shall later suggest for new or additional scholarly inquiry. In raising those questions, I am less likely to repeat myself because most of them are on subjects with which I have dealt only tangentially.