Making social sciences more scientific
Subtitle: the need for predictive models
By: Rein Taagepera.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780199534661
Subjects: Social sciences -- Research; Social sciences -- Fieldwork; Social sciences -- Methodology; Sociology -- Methodology; Sociology -- Research
Table of contents: title: Why social sciences are not scientific enough; title: Can social science approaches find the law of gravitation?; title: How to construct predictive models: simplicity and nonabsurdity; title: Example of model building: electoral volatility; title: Physicists multiply, social scientists add; title: -even when it does not add up; title: All hypotheses are not created equal; title: Why most numbers published in social sciences are dead on arrival; title: Forbidden areas and anchor points; title: Geometric means and lognormal distributions; title: Example of interlocking models : party sizes and cabinet duration; title: Beyond constraint-based models : communication channels and growth rates; title: Why we should shift to symmetric regression; title: All indices are not created equal; title: From descriptive to predictive approaches; title: Recommendations for better regression; title: Converting from descriptive analysis to predictive models; title: Are electoral studies a rosetta stone for parts of social sciences?; title: Beyond regression: the need for predictive models.