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John Gerring is a professor of political science at Boston University. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative politics, the methodology of the social sciences, and American political history. His most recent publications in methodology include Case study research: principles and practices (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Concepts and method in social science: the tradition of Giovanni Sartori (ed. with David Collier; Routledge, 2009), Social science methodology: tasks, strategies, and criteria (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), “How good is good enough?: a multidimensional, best-possible standard for research design” (forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly), and “Causal mechanisms: yes, but...” (forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies).