TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burnham,Peter
TI  - Research methods in politics
T2  - Political analysis
SN  - 0333962532
AV  - JA86 .R423 2004
U1  - 320.072 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Political science
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol056/2003067571.html
ER  -