Research methods in politics / Peter Burnham [and others].
Material type: TextSeries: Political analysis (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Description: xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0333962532
- 9780333962534
- 0333962540
- 9780333962541
- 320.072 22
- JA86 .R423 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : methods, methodology and making sense of the study of politics -- 1. The discipline of politics -- 2. Research design -- 3. Comparative methodology -- 4. Surveys and opinion polls -- 5. Descriptive statistics -- 6. Making inferences -- 7. Documentary and archival analysis -- 8. The internet and political research -- 9. Elite interviewing -- 10. Participant observation and the analysis of communications -- 11. Ethics and political research -- 12. Conclusion : challenging the mainstream and the qualitative/quantitative divide.
"This major new text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics, an assessment of their strengths and limitations, and an account of their relationship to the evolution of the discipline of political science. Illustrated throughout with boxed examples of real political research, the book ranges widely from substantial coverage of statistical methods to the use of archives, interviews, discourse analysis and the internet.Two concluding chapters cover ethical issues and the relationship between theories and methods with a special emphasis on combining traditions and approaches."--Publisher description.
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