Module
Case Study Methods
Schedule:
- 5 July (09:30 – 15:30)
- 6 July (09:30 – 15:30)
About
Case study admittedly does not enjoy equal esteemed status in the pantheon of social science’s research methodologies relative to its sisters such as the cross-units regression analysis or experimental research design. And yet, case study remains popular in a researcher’s toolkit as evidenced by a steady production of studies relying on an intensive examination of a single unit of analysis.
This module clarifies several important points in the following: (1) What is a case study? (2) What is it good for? (3) When is it best to employ it? And (4) whether it could be deployed to establish causal inference instead of mere descriptive inference.
Instructors
Gde Dwitya Arief Metera
Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia
Gde holds a joint appointment as a faculty member at Faculty of Social Sciences and as a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR) at UIII. Prior to joining the MPP program, he has held various research fellowships including positions at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute of Global Affairs in Chicago, The Asia Research Institute at NUS, as well as at BYU Law School where he served as a young scholar on law and religion. His research primarily focuses on the intricate power dynamics of policy making within the context of both democratic and authoritarian politics.
