Existing alongside the traditional forms of qualitative social science research, there is a set of potential research methods that derive from experiential groupwork and the humanistic human potential movement and are only slightly used by researchers. Social science research has barely begun to use these powerful strategies that were developed originally for personal and group change but that ...

Product Market Competition and Lobbying Coordination in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry* by Astrid Jung and Tomaso Duso This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying ...

An endless debate in social science research focuses on whether or not there is a philosophical basis for justifying the application of scientific methods to social inquiry. A review of the philosophies of various scholars in the field indicates that there is no single procedure for arriving at a valid statement in a scientific inquiry. Natural scientists employ a plethora of procedures for val...

Link analysis in various forms is now an established technique in many different subjects, reflecting the perceived importance of links and that of the web. A critical but very difficult issue is how to interpret the results of social science link analyses. It is argued that the dynamic nature of the web, its lack of quality control and the online proliferation of copying and imitation mean tha...

This study has been facilitated by an NSF/ESRC exchange programme between researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Nottingham. At the University of Nottingham the National Centre for e-Social Science node seeks to explore, understand and demonstrate the salience of new forms of digital record as they emerge from and for eSocial Science. The Nottingham Multimodal Corpus (NM...

A standard problem in social science attempts to better understand the large wage disparities between black and white workers in U. S. labor markets. Social scientists have conducted hundreds of studies of observed racial wage gaps, seeking to understand the extent to which they are driven by differences in human capital or disparate treatment by employers. In order to get an unbiased estimate ...

Abstract Scholars in literature departments and the social sciences share a broadly similar interest understanding human development, societal norms, political institutions. However, although scholars are likely to reference sources or concepts from their published work, line of influence is much less appear other way around. This unequal engagement provides occasion for this paper, which seeks...