Research Catalog

Title

Interviewing experts / edited by Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig and Wolfgang Menz.

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Bogner, Alexander
• Littig, Beate
• Menz, W. (Wolfgang)

Description

xii, 281 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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. "--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Research methods series

Uniform Title

Research methods series

Subject

• Comparative politics
• Interviewing
• Interviews as Topic > methods
• Political science & theory
• Politics and Government
• REFERENCE > Research
• Research Design
• Social research & statistics
• Specialists
• Specialists > Interviews > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Expert interviews : an introduction to a new methodological debate / Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig and Wolfgang Menz -- The expert interview and changes in knowledge production / Michael Meuser and Ulrike Nagel -- The theory-generating expert interview : epistemological interest, forms of knowledge, interaction / Alexander Bogner and Wolfgang Menz -- At eye level : the expert interview : a talk between expert and quasi-expert / Michaela Pfadenhauer -- Interviewing the elite : interviewing experts : is there a difference ? / Beate Littig -- On interviewing "good" and "bad" experts / Jochen Gläser and Grit Laudel -- Interviewing experts in political science : a reflection on gender and policy effects based on secondary analysis / Gabriele Abels and Maria Behrens -- Expert interviews on the telephone : a difficult undertaking / Gabriela B. Christmann -- Expert versus researcher : ethical considerations in the process of bargaining a study / Vaida Obelené -- How to interview managers? Methodical and methodological aspects of expert interviews as a qualitative method in empirical social research / Rainer Trinczek -- Expert interviews in interpretive organizational research / Ulrike Froschauer and Manfred Lueger -- Between scientific standards and claims to efficiency : expert interviews in programme evaluation / Angela Wroblewski and Andrea Leitner -- The Delphi method : eliciting experts' knowledge in technology foresight / Georg Aichholzer.

ISBN

• 9780230220195 (alk. paper)
• 0230220193 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009013661

OCLC

318100464

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Harvard Library