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Methods and models : a guide to the empirical analysis of formal models in political science / Rebecca B. Morton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 052163394X
  • 9780521633949
  • 0521633001
  • 9780521633000
Other title:
  • Methods & models [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.015
LOC classification:
  • JA72. M67 1999
Contents:
Part I. Introduction: -- 1. Political science's dilemma -- Part II. Formal Models in Political Science: -- 2. What makes a model formal? -- 3. The variety of formal models -- Part III. Empirical Evaluation of Formal Models: -- 4. Fundamentals of empirical evaluation -- 5. Evaluating assumptions -- 6. Evaluating predictions: equilibria, disequilibria, and multiequilibria -- 7. Evaluating relationship predictions -- 8. Evaluating alternative models -- Part IV. A Second Revolution: -- 9. The present and the future -- 10. References.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315) and index.

Part I. Introduction: -- 1. Political science's dilemma -- Part II. Formal Models in Political Science: -- 2. What makes a model formal? -- 3. The variety of formal models -- Part III. Empirical Evaluation of Formal Models: -- 4. Fundamentals of empirical evaluation -- 5. Evaluating assumptions -- 6. Evaluating predictions: equilibria, disequilibria, and multiequilibria -- 7. Evaluating relationship predictions -- 8. Evaluating alternative models -- Part IV. A Second Revolution: -- 9. The present and the future -- 10. References.

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