Format:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9781315699295
Content:
Organized to complement an introductory course in political science research methods, this work aims to help students understand research as it is actually practiced. Each chapter opens with an explanation of basic concepts and methods of political research.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: A Science of Politics -- 2. The Logic of Research Design: Experiments and Quasi-Experiments -- Excerpt 1. Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., and Shanto Iyengar, "Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public." -- Excerpt 2. J. Eric Oliver and Tali Mendelberg, "Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of White Racial Attitudes. -- 3. Measurement and Operationalization I: Variables Pertaining to Aggregate Units -- Excerpt 3. William D. Berry, Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording, and Russell L. Hanson, "Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-1993. -- Excerpt 4. Charles D. Brockett, "Measuring Political Violence and Land Inequality in Central America. -- 4. Measurement and Operationalization II: Variables Pertaining to Individual Behavior -- Excerpt 5. Lyn Ragsdale and Jerrold G. Rusk, "Who Are Nonvoters? Profiles from the 1990 Senate Elections. -- Excerpt 6. Nancy Bums, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Sidney Verba, "The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Family Life and Citizen Participation. -- 5. Surveys -- Excerpt 7. Stanley Feldman and John Zaller, "The Political Culture of Ambivalence: Ideological Responses to the Welfare State. -- Excerpt 8. James L. Gibson, "Social Networks, Civil Society, and the Prospects for Consolidating Russia's Democratic Transition. -- 6. Indexing -- Excerpt 9. Thomas M. Holbrook and Emily Van Dunk, "Electoral Competition in the American States. -- 7. Content Analysis -- Excerpt 10. Russell J. Dalton, Paul A. Beck, and Robert Huckfeldt, "Partisan Cues and the Media: Information Flows in the 1992 Presidential Election. -- 8. Sampling -- Excerpt 11. J. Eric Oliver, "City Size and Civic Involvement in Metropolitan America.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780765607560
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780765607560
Language:
English
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