Methodological issues of Permit Project – The Italian case

The definition of what is a good research methodology varies according to initial assumptions, theories, and philosophical approaches shared by the researchers and based on the intended uses of the results of a research. In the Permit project the methodological approach adopted by the Italian research group has involved both quantitative and qualitative methods. More than that, studies using mixed-method have shown that integration of these traditions within the same study can be seen as complementary to each other . In this paper, progressively, will be examined both the study and the choices of the Permit Project research methodology positioned within a mixed-method approach.