ABSTRACT
This chapter develops the idea of a pluralist methodology of political economy by suggesting how it can be pragmatic about sources, strategic about methods and informed by the critical research ethic. Although pluralism offers many opportunities to develop methodologies within the study of political economy, those opportunities also come with real challenges to research design and practice. An iterative research strategy emphasises the movement of research. That strategy has three key movements: determining how the object of analysis is formed, accounting for method and developing evidence to make knowledge claims. The craft of research is typically presented as stages of completing a dissertation or steps in a research design. The goal of an iterative research strategy is thus to find problems, to give answers to questions, to uncover the hidden and to hear the voiceless while also dealing with research problems pragmatically and in accordance with one's critical research ethic.
