Critical reading: On the status of 'cases' in mixed methods.

Summary 1st lines: For the past twenty years, numerous works have been devoted to "mixed methods" in political science. Despite the diversity of the procedures developed, their promoters are generally motivated by the same observation: qualitative approaches, applied "in depth" to a small number of trajectories, could usefully serve to complete, qualify, or even challenge theories demonstrated by quantitative methods on larger populations of "cases.