What we are proposing at this stage is modest. It involves the use of case studies as “building blocks” toward a more general theory of domestic salience rather than “tests” of a fully developed model or theory.Persuaded that the logic of discovery is somewhat different from the logic of testing, we anticipate movement toward more rigorous tests—and perhaps ancillary hypothesis generation through deduction—at a future stage of research. Before much confidence can be ascribed to the validity of inductively derived propositions, they need to be subjected to analysis across a much wider range of cases than those from which they were generated.