This book offers a cross-paradigm account of the qualitative methodological repertoire in political science. Interpretive methods (qualitative interviews, group discussions, observational procedures, content analysis, discourse analysis, hermeneutic procedures, ethnographic methods, and grounded theory); case study methodology (descriptive-comparative case studies, case-comparative causal analysis, process analysis, and congruence analysis); and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), especially in its fuzzy set variant, are covered. Many examples round out the textbook.