Working with political science research methods : problems and exercises

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Title:

Author:

Mycoff, Jason D., 1975-

ISBN:

9781608716906

Personal Author:

Mycoff, Jason D., 1975-

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

Los Angeles : SAGE/CQ Press, c2012.

Physical Description:

154 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

General Note:

Companion volume to Political science research methods, 7th ed., 2012.

Contents:

Introduction: Practice makes perfect -- The empirical approach to political science -- Beginning the research process: Identifying a research topic, developing research questions, and reviewing the literature -- The building blocks of social scientific research: Measurement -- Research design: making causal inferences -- Sampling -- Making empirical observations: direct and indirect observation -- Documentation analysis: using the written record -- Survey research and interviewing -- Making sense of data: first steps -- Statistical inference -- Investigating relationships between two variables -- Multivariate analysis.

Subject Term:

Political science -- Methodology.

Added Author:

Johnson, Janet Buttolph, 1950- Political science research methods.

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Summary

Practice makes perfect. The new Third Edition of Working with Political Science Research Methods continues to support student learning by offering the perfect opportunity to practice each of the methods presented in the core text. Designed to be paired with the text, chapter for chapter, the workbook breaks out each aspect of the research process into manageable parts and features new exercises and updated data sets. A solutions manual with answers to the workbook is available to adopters.