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Golan-Nadir presents the research design for this study, the core of which is the comparative method. More specifically, the chapter introduces the comparative research design of two case studies, that is, a small-n comparative research that the study employs. Researching Enduring Gaps in Comparative Research: The Data, the Methods, and the Cases, systematically defines the population of the study, the examined time period, as well as elaborates on the chosen data collection method, data sources, and analytical techniques. It highlights the merit of mixed method research by means of qualitative and quantitative tools and analysis. The chapter concludes that the research design presented here sets the foundations for this research and serves as a departure point for the empirical analysis employed in the following chapters.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Empirically, process tracing is well analyzed using the qualitative phase this research practices; as George and Bennett (2005) argue: “In process tracing, the researcher examines histories, archival documents, interview transcripts, and other sources to see whether the causal process a theory hypothesizes or implies in a case is in fact evident in the sequence and values of the intervening variables in that case” (p. 6). Additionally, this research employs interviews with people of various functions. It is a very important and useful research tool for this qualitative phase in the process tracing research. As Odell notes: “George and Bennett tend to equate the case study method in particular with archival and document-based research. As a result, other forms of data collection , including interviewing, are left largely under explored. however, especially elite interviewing, is highly relevant for process tracing approaches to case study research” (2006, p. 38).

  2. 2.

    This research conducts documentation analysis of primary data sources; public records, parliament/Knesset protocols, legislation/court rulings, state official statistical databases. And also, of secondary data sources (academic literature, publications by research centers, and systematic newspaper archival review).

  3. 3.

    Interviewees are mentioned only by their initials, unless asked otherwise.

  4. 4.

    About the firm see: http://www.geocartography.com/eng/.

  5. 5.

    In relevant questions an open ‘other’ option is available, in order to allow further insights.

  6. 6.

    Geocartography emphasized that the company has large reservoirs of web survey participants. Only participant who answered they were Sunni-Muslim could automatically continue to the topic-specific questions.

  7. 7.

    In Turkey, some questions regarding religion were never asked before this current survey. This is because the subject is very sensitive in the Turkish context, and makes people uncomfortable. It is a normative notion that secularism, as the building block of the Turkish Republic, is not a thing to publicly question. The sensitivity of the topic is a commonly used social rhetoric and is elaborated upon in Chap. 8. Nevertheless, using appropriate wording, promising confidentiality, the lack of face-to-face contact, and a professional constructing of the questions, assist in overcoming this obstacle. Consequently, de facto, there were no missing answers for any question in the survey.

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