Interpretive Research Design

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many of the ideas contained herein were worked out in teaching contexts, whether in classroom settings or in conversations with our respective students and colleagues. We thank all of them in their several settings: the Political Science Department at the University of Utah; the 2006–2009 “Meaning and Methods” course in the Culture, Organization, and Management Department at VU University, Amsterdam, and the Netherlands Institute of Government “General Methodology” course, co-taught with Markus Haverland; the 2009 National Science Foundation Workshop on Interpretive Methodologies in Political Science; and methods courses, workshops, and seminars of various sorts at Vienna's Institute for Advanced Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam's ...