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When embarking on a new research project students face the same core research design issues. This volume provides readers with practical guidelines for both qualitative and quantitative designs, discusses the typical trade-offs involved in choosing them and is rich in examples from actual research.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Designing Research in Political Science — A Dialogue between Theory and Data
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Research Problem
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Concepts and Theory
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Case Selection
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Back Matter
Reviews
'The internal structure of each of the chapters nicely fits the hands-on approach taken in this book. Each chapter starts by introducing and discussing the specific research design issue addressed within it. Five to ten practical guidelines are then given as to how to translate the abstract reasoning into concrete research. Finally, examples of real research are used to illustrate the abstract discussion and to provide flesh to the guidelines. The second strong point is the distinction made between outcome-centric and factor-centric research, or in other words research that seeks to identify the causes of an outcome (or effect) and that research that is interested in the effect of a specific cause. While others have made this distinction before, this book elaborates on the consequences of this distinction for several elements of the research design such as the implications for the function of typologies (chapter by Lehnert) and the selection of independent variables (Sieberer) the volume devotes a chapter to the very start of the research process the identification of the research question. Here the emphasis is on increasing the relevance of the research question by discussing theoretical and societal relevance.' - Markus Haverland, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands in European Political Science, December 2010
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
DIRK DE BIÈVRE Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Political Science, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
ANDREAS DÜR Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
MATTHIAS LEHNERT Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany
DIRK LEUFFEN Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
BERNHARD MILLER Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany
JULIA RATHKE Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany
ULRICH SIEBERER Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany
JANINA THIEM Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany
ARNDT WONKA Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research Design in Political Science
Book Subtitle: How to Practice what they Preach
Editors: Thomas Gschwend, Frank Schimmelfennig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598881
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-01947-8Published: 23 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30127-6Published: 23 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59888-1Published: 23 October 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 243
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Science, Learning & Instruction, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Methodology of the Social Sciences