Title: Guide to methods for students of political science /
Authors: Van Evera, Stephen.
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Political science Methodology
Abstract: Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, and history - and for their advisers.
Contents: 1. Hypotheses, Laws, and Theories: A User's Guide -- 2. What Are Case Studies? How Should They Be Performed? -- 3. What Is a Political Science Dissertation? -- 4. Helpful Hints on Writing a Political Science Dissertation -- 5. Dissertation Proposal -- 6. Professional Ethics -- App. How to Write a Paper.