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Research design in political science : how to practice what they preach
Title
Research design in political science : how to practice what they preach / edited by Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig.
ISBN
0230019471 (alk. paper)
9780230019478 (alk. paper)
Published
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Physical Description
xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 13, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-239) and index.
Contents
Designing research in political science / Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig
Increasing the relevance of research questions / Matthias Lehnert, Bernhard Miller, and Arndt Wonka
Concept specification in political science research / Arndt Wonka
Typologies in social inquiry / Matthias Lehnert
Making measures capture concepts / Bernhard Miller
Achieving comparability of secondary data / Julia Rathke
Dealing effectively with selection bias in large-n research / Janina Thiem
Case selection and selection bias in small-n research / Dirk Leuffen
Selecting independent variables / Ulrich Sieberer
Discriminating among rival explanations : some tools for small-n researchers / Andreas Dür
Falsification in theory-guided empirical social research : how to change a tire while riding your bicycle / Dirk De Bièvre
Lessons for the dialogue between theory and data / Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig.
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