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Understanding Political Science Research Methods - The Challenge of Inference (Hardcover)
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Understanding Political Science Research Methods - The Challenge of Inference (Hardcover)
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This text starts by explaining the fundamental goal of good
political science research-the ability to answer interesting and
important questions by generating valid inferences about political
phenomena. Before the text even discusses the process of developing
a research question, the authors introduce the reader to what it
means to make an inference and the different challenges that social
scientists face when confronting this task. Only with this ultimate
goal in mind will students be able to ask appropriate questions,
conduct fruitful literature reviews, select and execute the proper
research design, and critically evaluate the work of others. The
authors' primary goal is to teach students to critically evaluate
their own research designs and others' and analyze the extent to
which they overcome the classic challenges to making inference:
internal and external validity concerns, omitted variable bias,
endogeneity, measurement, sampling, and case selection errors, and
poor research questions or theory. As such, students will not only
be better able to conduct political science research, but they will
also be more savvy consumers of the constant flow of causal
assertions that they confront in scholarship, in the media, and in
conversations with others. Three themes run through Barakso, Sabet,
and Schaffner's text: minimizing classic research problems to
making valid inferences, effective presentation of research
results, and the nonlinear nature of the research process.
Throughout their academic years and later in their professional
careers, students will need to effectively convey various bits of
information. Presentation skills gleaned from this text will
benefit students for a lifetime, whether they continue in academia
or in a professional career. Several distinctive features make this
book noteworthy: A common set of examples threaded throughout the
text give students a common ground across chapters and expose them
to a broad range of subfields in the discipline. Box features
throughout the book illustrate the nonlinear, "non-textbook"
reality of research, demonstrate the often false inferences and
poor social science in the way the popular press covers politics,
and encourage students to think about ethical issues at various
stages of the research process.
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