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The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Political methodology has changed dramatically in the past thirty
years. Not only have new methods and techniques been developed, but
the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative Methods
Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged
in ongoing research and training programs that have advanced both
quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Oxford Handbook of
Political Methodology is designed to reflect these developments. It
provides comprehensive overviews and critiques of all the key
specific methodologies.
The volume emphasizes three things. Firstly, techniques should be
the servants of improved data collection, measurement,
conceptualization, and the understanding of meanings and the
identification of causal relationship in social science research.
Techniques will be described with the aim of showing how they
contribute to these tasks, and the emphasis will be upon developing
good research designs--not upon simply using sophisticated
techniques.
Second, there are many different ways that these tasks can be
undertaken in the social sciences through description and modeling,
case-study and large-n designs, and quantitative and qualitative
research.
Third, techniques can cut across boundaries and be useful for many
different kinds of researchers. The chapter authors ask how their
methods can be used by, or at least inform, the work of those
outside those areas where they are usually employed. For example,
those describing large-n statistical techniques should ask how
their methods might at least inform, if not sometimes be adopted
by, those doing case studies or interpretive work, and we want
those explaining how to do comparativehistorical work or process
tracing to explain how it could inform those doing time-series
studies.
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