From action research to validity, this innovative and informative text is an invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations.
Key Features:
– Each entry is consistently structured, providing: a clear definition, a focused explanation, a summary of current debates and areas of research, further reading, and references to other related concepts.
– Explains how and why particular research methods are used and highlights alternative research concepts and strategies.
– Cross-relates entries, enabling you to dip in to topics and follow threads throughout the book.
– Packed with illuminating examples to help you to apply theory to the ′real world′ of political analysis.
An essential companion for students of Politics and International Relations at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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Table des matières
IndroductionAction Research
Autobiography/Biography Research
Behaviourialism
Case Studies
Causality and Correlations
Comparative Method
Concepts
Content Analysis
Deduction/Induction
Discourse Analysis
Documentary Analysis
Ecological Fallacy
Empirical Analysis
Epistemology
Ethics
Ethnography and Ethnomethodology
Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPM)
Feminism/Feminist Methodologies
Focus Groups
Hypothesis-Testing and Inference
Interviewing
Levels of Measurement
Methods
Methodology
Narratives
Observation
Official Data
Ontology
Paradigm
Positivism
Post-postivism
Presenting Quantitative Analysis
Primary Sources
Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Methods
Rational-Choice
Realism
Reliability
Sampling
Secondary Analysis
Survey Design
Theory
Triangulation
Validity
Variables
Index
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