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Understanding political methodology : a quantitative approach /

"This book presents an accessible overview of the key concepts underlying quantitative political methodology. Nathaniel L. Beck draws on existing quantitative analysis relating to political behavior and institutions to outline how and where these approaches are best used. Providing insights int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beck, Nathaniel L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.
Series:Understanding.
Subjects:
Political science > Methodology.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The prehistory of political methodology
  • 3. The birth of political methodology
  • 4. Multiple regression
  • 5. Hypothesis testing applied to regression
  • 6. Logit and maximum likelihood
  • 7. A brief tour of various maximum likelihood-based estimators
  • 8. Correcting for complicated errors
  • 9. Time-series-cross-sectional data (and single time series)
  • 10. Measurement
  • 11. Causality: Experiments and near experiments
  • 12. Causality without randomization: Controls
  • 13. Networks
  • 14. New data sources: Text and images
  • 15. Conclusion: New data and new methods
  • Bibliography
  • Index.