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Variable-centred designs are often called quantitative designs. Such designs are commonly defined as building on quantitative data and on data from multiple units. Their basic property is, however, the underlying reductionism that decides how we produce and organise data in a variable-centred design. This chapter discusses how theory testing and theory development place different demands on the set-up of a variable-centred inquiry, before ending with an overview of main variants of variable-centred designs. Experimental designs, cross-sectional designs, and time series designs are discussed.
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Bukve, O. (2019). Variable-Centred Designs. In: Designing Social Science Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03979-0_6
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