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The craft of political research /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shively, W. Phillips, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2005]
Edition:6th ed.
Subjects:
Political science > Methodology.
Political science > Research.
Table of Contents:
  • Doing research
  • Political theories and research topics
  • The importance of dimensional thinking
  • Problems of measurement : accuracy
  • Problems of measurement : precision
  • Causal thinking and design of research
  • Selection of observations for study
  • Introduction to statistics : measuring relationships for interval data
  • Introduction to statistics : further topics on measurement of relationships
  • Introduction to statistics
  • Where do theories come from?