Gschwend / Schimmelfennig Research Design in Political Science

How to Practice what they Preach
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-59888-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection

When embarking on a new research project students face the same core research design issues. This volume provides readers with practical guidelines for both qualitative and quantitative designs, discusses the typical trade-offs involved in choosing them and is rich in examples from actual research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gschwend, T.

Schimmelfennig, F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Designing Research in Political Science; T.Gschwend & F.Schimmelfennig Increasing the Relevance of Research Questions; M.Lehnert, B.Miller & A.Wonka Concept Specification in Political Science Research; A.Wonka Typologies in Social Inquiry; M.Lehnert Making Measures Capture Concepts; B.Miller Achieving Comparability of Secondary Data; J.Rathke Dealing Effectively with Selection Bias in Large-n Research; J.Thiem Case Selection and Selection Bias in Small-n Research; D.Leuffen Selecting Independent Variables; U.Sieberer Discriminating among Rival Explanations: Some Tools for Small-n Researchers; A.Dür Falsification in Theory-Guided Empirical Social Research; D.De Bièvre Lessons for the Dialogue between Theory and Data; T.Gschwend & F.Schimmelfennig

Über Autor(innen)

DIRK DE BIÈVRE Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Political Science, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
ANDREAS DÜR Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
MATTHIAS LEHNERT Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany
DIRK LEUFFEN Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
BERNHARD MILLER Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany
JULIA RATHKE Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany
ULRICH SIEBERER Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany
JANINA THIEM Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany
ARNDT WONKA Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany