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This book offers students in the social sciences simply stated,
direct guidance in defining problems for research and in organizing
and conducting a research program. It addresses basic questions
about topic selection, interviewing, surveys, documentation, and
other research methods.
This book offers students in the social sciences simply stated,
direct guidance in defining problems for research and in organizing
and conducting a research program. Confronting philosophical and
practical problems, it will serve both graduate and undergraduate
students well, providing the former with assistance in preparing
their theses and informing the latter on how to develop research
papers. Dr. Feldman addresses basic questions about topic
selection, interviewing, surveys, documentation, and other research
methods. While his emphasis is on comparative research, any student
pursuing field research in political science, sociology,
anthropology, geography, social psychology, and other branches of
the social sciences will find the book helpful. The concentration
on data collection, rather than analysis, will make it particularly
useful for those undertaking a research project for the first time.
This book is a study of the joint British and French construction
of Concorde, and their separate projects to build new international
airports in London (the repeatedly abandoned third airport) and
Paris (Charles de Gaulle). Conventional explanations of these
projects, all of which can be seen as 'failures' in some sense,
contrast French professional and rational planning expertise with
the amateurishness of the British. Professor Feldman challenges
such stereotypes, arguing instead that policy failures in the two
countries can be explained in terms of political instability. His
book is unique in developing such detailed, controlled case studies
for the comparison of political systems, and offers new insights
into public policy-making in Britain and France.
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