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This edited volume is the first comprehensive text to provide an
evidence-based (i.e. emphasizing the practical application of the
findings of the best available current research) and nonpartisan
(i.e. not biased, especially toward any particular political group)
analyses of the United States Presidential Election of 2020. The
contributors to this volume present evidence pertaining to polling
and improbabilities, the modernization of United States elections
administration and the voting process, voting strategy and legal
wrangling, the Black view, and challenges to democracy. The
collection ends with a unifying theme, predicts the probability for
the 2024 Presidential Election, and offers policy recommendations
for future Presidential Elections.
"A Comprehensive Guide to Research Methods, Volume One" provides a
clear overview of various methodologies of quantitative research.
Each chapter defines and describes a specific methodology and
introduces readers to those who pioneered it. Applications of each
methodology are discussed, its strengths and weaknesses are
explored, and references for further study are provided.
Students will learn about achievement testing methodology,
agent-based models, calculus for the social sciences, and chaos and
catastrophe theories. They will also become familiar with content
analysis, linear programming, matrix algebra, and metric scaling.
In all, twenty diverse research methods, ranging from internet data
collection to multivariate analysis of variance, are effectively
explained and analyzed, exposing readers to the fundamentals of
each, and creating a pathway for deeper study.
"A Comprehensive Guide to Research Methods" is recommended for use
in undergraduate courses focusing on research methodologies in the
social sciences.
Abdul Karim Bangura holds Ph.D.s in political science, development
economics, linguistics, computer science, and mathematics. Dr.
Bangura is a professor of research methodology and political
science at Howard University, and a researcher-in-residence at the
Center for Global Peace in the School of International Service at
American University. The author of 70 books and over 600 scholarly
articles, Dr. Bangura won the prestigious 2012 Cecil B. Curry Book
Award for "African Mathematics: From Bones to Computers."Junior
Hopwood is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chair of the
Department of Social Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern
Shore. He is a member of the Permanent Organization and Strategic
Planning Committee for the Society of the Study of Social Problems,
and the author of "HIV/AIDS in Sub-Sahara Africa: Control Through
Innovative Stress Management Approaches. "
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