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Thinking Like a Political Scientist - A Practical Guide to Research Methods (Paperback)
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Thinking Like a Political Scientist - A Practical Guide to Research Methods (Paperback)
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Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in
politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in
research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing,
and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research
methods fail to highlight the most important concepts and
questions. Instead, they brim with dry technical definitions and
focus heavily on statistical analysis, slighting other valuable
methods. This approach not only dulls potential enjoyment of the
course, but prevents students from mastering the skills they need
to engage more directly and meaningfully with a wide variety of
research. With wit and practical wisdom, Christopher Howard draws
on more than a decade of experience teaching research methods to
transform a typically dreary subject and teach budding political
scientists the critical skills they need to read published research
more effectively and produce better research of their own. The
first part of the book is devoted to asking three fundamental
questions in political science: What happened? Why? Who cares? In
the second section, Howard demonstrates how to answer these
questions by choosing an appropriate research design, selecting
cases, and working with numbers and written documents as evidence.
Drawing on examples from American and comparative politics,
international relations, and public policy, Thinking Like a
Political Scientist highlights the most common challenges that
political scientists routinely face, and each chapter concludes
with exercises so that students can practice dealing with those
challenges.
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