Working with Political Science Research Methods : Problems and Exercises

Practice makes perfect. This new, Fifth 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 P olitical Science Research Methods 9th edition chapter-for-chapter, the workbook breaks out each aspect of the research process into manageable parts and features new exercises and updated data sets. More than half of the book's exercises are new or updated and feature more international examples, greater focus on qualitative research methods, and directly correlates with the text's more condensed layout. A solutions manual with answers to the workbook is available to adopters. Half Title Publisher Note Title Page Copyright Page Contents About the Author Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Practice Makes Perfect 2 The Empirical Approach to Political Science 3 Beginning the Research Process: Identifying a Research Topic, Developing Research Questions, and Reviewing the Literature 4 The Building Blocks of Social Scientific Research: Hypotheses, Concepts, Variables, and Measurements 5 Sampling 6 Research Design: Establishing Causation: Making Causal Inferences 7 Qualitative Research: Case Study Designs 8 Making Empirical Observations: Qualitative Analysis 9 Quantitative Research Designs 10 Quantitative Methods 11 Making Sense of Data: First Steps 12 Testing Relationships 13 Analyzing Relationships for Categorical Data 14 Regression Practice makes perfect. This new, Fifth 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 #em/em#olitical Science Research Methods 9th edition chapter-for-chapter, the workbook breaks out each aspect of the research process into manageable parts and features new exercises and updated data sets. More than half of the book′s exercises are new or updated and feature more international examples, greater focus on qualitative research methods, and directly correlates with the text′s more condensed layout. A solutions manual with answers to the workbook is available to adopters. Political Science Research Methods helps students to understand the logic behind research design by guiding them through a step-by-step process that explains when and why a researcher would pursue different kinds of methods.