The craft of political research
By: W. Phillips Shively.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Political science -- Methodology.; Political science -- Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-171) and index.
Table of contents: value: Doing research; value: Political theories and research topics; value: The importance of dimensional thinking; value: Problems of measurement : accuracy; value: Problems of measurement : precision; value: Causal thinking and design of research; value: Selection of observations for study; value: Introduction to statistics : measuring relationships for interval data; value: Introduction to statistics : further topics on measurement of relationships; value: Introduction to statistics; value: Where do theories come from?