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Title Interviewing experts / edited by Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig and Wolfgang Menz
Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Series Research methods series
Research methods series.
Contents The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production / M. Meuser & U. Nagel -- The Theory-Generating Expert Interview: Epistemological Interest, Forms of Knowledge, Interaction / A. Bogner & W. Menz -- At Eye Level. An Expert Interview: A Talk between Expert and Quasi-Expert / M. Pfadenhauer -- Interviewing the Elite -- Interviewing Experts: Is there a Difference? / B. Littig -- On Interviewing 'Good' and 'Bad' Experts / J. GlĖƒser & G. Laudel -- Interviewing Experts in Political Science: A Reflection on Gender and Policy Effects Based on Secondary Analysis / G. Abels & M. Behrens -- Expert Interviews on the Telephone: A Difficult Undertaking / G.B. Christmann -- Expert versus Researcher: Ethical Considerations in the Process of Bargaining a Study / V. Obelene -- How to Interview Managers?: Methodical and Methodological Aspects of Expert Interviews as a Qualitative Method in Empirical Social Research / R. Trinczek -- Expert Interviews in Interpretative Organisational Research / U. Froschauer & M. Lueger -- Between Scientific Standards and Claims of Efficiency: Expert Interviews in Programme Evaluation / A. Leitner & A. Wroblewski -- The Delphi Method: Eliciting Expert's Knowledge in Technology Foresight / G. Aichholzer
Summary Interviewing Experts gives a comprehensive overview of the methodology and methods of expert interviews. In addition to that it includes the most import fields of applications. Today, expert interviews are considered a standard method of qualitative approach in divergent fields of the political and social sciences, such as international relations, science & technology studies, organizational research, gender studies etc. However, expert interviews are still marginalized in international discussions about the methodology and methods of qualitative research. Nevertheless expert interviews are frequently applied in empirical research and there is an increasing need for theoretical reflection and practical aid. Thus the book contributes to a rising methodological debate on expert interviews, reflecting on a longstanding empirical practice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Interviewing.
Specialists -- Interviews -- Methodology
Interviews.
Political science & theory.
Comparative politics.
Social research & statistics.
REFERENCE -- Research.
Politics and Government.
Interviews
Interviewing
Specialists
Experteninterview
Qualitative Methode
Qualitatives Interview
Comparative politics.
Social research & statistics.
Political science & theory.
Politics & government.
Politics and Government.
Form Electronic book
Author Bogner, Alexander.
Littig, Beate.
Menz, W. (Wolfgang)
LC no. 2009013661
ISBN 9780230244276
0230244270
9781349305759
1349305758