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Political Science Research Methods set the standard for being relevant, comprehensive, and ever mindful of its student audience. With the seventh edition, the authors further refine their popular text to be more welcoming and more intuitive than ever--an ideal gateway to understanding not just the "how" but also the "why" behind research in the discipline. Bolded key terms, a glossary, and explanatory charts, figures, and tables help aid students learning. "Helpful hint" boxes give students nuts-and-bolts reminders they can refer to when conducting their own research.

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• Introduction
• The Empirical Approach to Political Science
• Beginning the Research Process: Identifying a Topic, Developing Questions, and Reviewing the Literature
• The Building Blocks of Social Scientific Research: Hypotheses, Concepts, and Variables
• The Building Blocks of Social Scientific Research: Measurement
• Research Design: Making Causal Inferences
• Sampling
• Making Empirical Observations: Direct and Indirect Observation
• Document Analysis: Using the Written Record
• Survey Research and Interviewing
• Making Sense of Data: First Steps
• Statistical Inference
• Investigating Relationships between Two Variables
• Multivariate Analysis
• The Research Report: An Annotated Example

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Janet Buttolph Johnson is associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in public policy, state and local politics, and environmental policy and politics.

H. T. Reynolds is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Delaware. He is author of Governing America, with David Volger; The Analysis of Nominal Data , Second Edition; and several articles on methodology.