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Review Articles After KKV the New Methodology of Qualitative research
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DESIGNING Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Re- search, by Gary King, robert o. Keohane, and sidney Verba, stands as one of the most widely read books in contemporary political science.1 Nearly all leading political scientists are at least somewhat familiar with it, perhaps knowing the work as simply “kkv ,” a label that acknowledges (though also possibly reifies) its prominent authors. No one can deny that Designing Social Inquiry has had a large impact in the discipline. It popularized many methodological terms and ideas— descriptive and causal inference, observable implications, unit homogeneity, selection bias, and mean causal effect. And its attempt to codify each step in research design—from formulating questions, to specifying testable theories, to choosing observations, to testing theories,