TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monroe,Alan D.
TI  - Essentials of political research
T2  - Essentials of political science
SN  - 0813368669 (pbk.) :
U1  - 320.072 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Boulder, Colo., Oxford
PB  - Westview
KW  - Political science
KW  - Research
N1  - List of Tables and Figures --; Preface --; 1; The Scientific Study of Research Questions --; What Does It Mean to Be Scientific? --; Distinguishing Empirical and Normative Questions --; Reformulating Normative Questions as Empirical --; Research Questions --; The Scientific Research Process --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 2; Building Blocks of the Research Process --; Theories, Hypotheses, and Operational Definitions: An Overview --; Types of Hypotheses --; Theoretical Role --; Units of Analysis --; Operational Definitions --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 3; Research Design --; The Concept of Causality --; Types of Research Design --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 4; Published Data Sources --; The Internet as Data Source --; The Importance of Units of Analysis --; Strategies for Finding Data Sources --; Some General Data Sources --; Demographic Data --; Political and Governmental Data for Nations --; Data on U.S. Government and Politics --; Survey Data --; Content Analysis --; Steps in Content Analysis --; Issues in Content Analysis --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 5; Survey Research --; Sampling --; Interviewing --; Writing Survey Items --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 6; Statistics: An Introduction --; Levels of Measurement --; Univariate Statistics --; The Concept of Relationship --; Multivariate Statistics --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 7; Graphic Display of Data --; Graphics for Univariate Distributions --; Graphics for Multivariate Relationships --; How Not to Lie with Graphics --; The Need for Standardization --; Principles for Good Graphics --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercise A --; 8; Nominal and Ordinal Statistics --; Correlations for Nominal Variables --; Correlations for Ordinal Variables --; Chi-Square: A Significance Test --; Additional Correlations for Nominal Variables --; Interpreting Contingency Tables Using Statistics --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 9; Interval Statistics --; The Regression Line --; Pearson's r --; Nonlinear Relationships --; Relationships Between Interval and Nominal Variables --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; 10; Multivariate Statistics --; Controlling with Contingency Tables --; What Can Happen When You Control --; Controlling with Interval Variables: Partial Correlations --; The Multiple Correlation --; Significance Test for R[superscript 2] --; Beta Weights --; Causal Interpretation --; Exercises --; Suggested Answers to Exercises --; References --; Index
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