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This article examines the relative advantages & disadvantages of quantitative & qualitative research methods for the analysis of the process & outcome of international negotiations. It does this by tracing the author's personal evolution as a researcher in the field, indicating how shifting paradigms & changing research questions have created a need for diverse methodologies, each tailored to the specific questions under investigation. It is concluded that large-scale systematic analyses of international negotiations can best be carried out by large interdisciplinary research teams. This will require negotiation scholars to negotiate with one another to develop collaborative research strategies & measurement instruments. If we are to be successful in large-scale, systematic studies of international negotiations, we must emulate our colleagues in fields such as the natural sciences where large teams with substantial resources collaborate over extended periods of time to produce meaningful findings. 21 References. Adapted from the source document.

Der Versuch, die aktuelle Entwicklung der Historischen Sozialforschung systematisch zu dokumentieren und zu analysieren, stützt sich neben der Datenbank FORIS des Informationszentrums Sozialwissenschaften (Bonn) auf eine abgeschlossene Dokumentation des Zentrums für Historische Sozialforschung (Köln). Die statistische Analyse von 564 beschriebenen Forschungsprojekten führte u.a. zu folgenden Ergebnissen: Im Vergleich zur empirischen Sozialforschung trägt die Historische Sozialforschung deutlich akademischen Charakter. Der zeitliche Schwerpunkt liegt bei der Zeit nach 1850; das Hauptinteresse gilt also der Geschichte der modernen, industriellen Gesellschaft. Bei den Erhebungsmethoden dominieren naturgemäß die Akten- und Inhaltsanalyse. (pmb)

AbstractThis article examines the relative advantages and disadvantages of quantitative and qualitative research methods for the analysis of the process and outcome of international negotiations. It does this by tracing the author's personal evolution as a researcher in the field, indicating how shifting paradigms and changing research questions have created a need for diverse methodologies, each tailored to the specific questions under investigation. It is concluded that large-scale systematic analyses of international negotiations can best be carried out by large interdisciplinary research teams. This will require negotiation scholars to negotiate with one another to develop collaborative research strategies and measurement instruments. If we are to be successful in large-scale, systematic studies of international negotiations, we must emulate our colleagues in fields such as the natural sciences where large teams with substantial resources collaborate over extended periods of time to produce meaningful findings.

This paper is mainly concerned with the real effects of different kinds of savings/investment incentives on the capital accumulation. Investment incentive programmes, at least in Italy, have been part of the Standard government budget for a long time. Therefore, especially from a policy-maker point of view, it is interesting to find out which are the quantitative impacts of these programmes. In particular the focus has been concentrated on: a) sector specific incentives to capital services; b) fiscal deductions on the income tax base and subsidies to purchasers of assets which qualify for the programme. These incentives schemes have been analysed performing numerical simulation of equal-yield tax changes within a general equilibrium growth model for Italy with overlapping generations. An intertemporal model has been used since the political discussion encompassing policy initiatives, such as the investment programmes, revolves around the steady-state effects rather than the static ones.

Explores to what extent a modernization & dependency approach synthesis might explain the difference in the level of democracy among countries in different regions. A quantitative empirical design was applied to data from 87 developing & developed countries over four (sometimes overlapping) time periods (1965-1975, 1970-1980, 1980-1990, & 1965-1990), measuring the size of the middle class, & path analysis estimated a causal model. The synthesis is empirically supported with the core modernization & dependency hypotheses confirmed. 1 Table, 1 Figure, 1 Appendix, 58 References. Adapted from the source document.

'Collective Choice Processes: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Foreign Policy Decision-Making' by Irmtraud N. Gallhofer and Willem E. Saris is reviewed.