| Terms Introduced | |
| Selected Readings, and Activities | |
| Science and behavior | |
| How Do We Know What's True? | |
| Asking and Answering Questions About Politics The Boundaries and Limits of Science | |
| Using the Scientific Method and Political Science | |
| We Are All Scientists Characteristics and Assumptions of the Scientific | |
| Approach to Understanding Politics | |
| The Wheel of Science Describes the Stages in the Research Process | |
| Preparing for Research | |
| Formulating Problems and Hypotheses | |
| How to Develop a Political Research Question | |
| Sources of Research Topics Criteria for Evaluating Potential | |
| Political Research Topics | |
| Ethical Issues in Political Science | |
| Research Transforming | |
| Research Topics into Researchable Questions | |
| Narrowing the Focus Elements in Hypotheses | |
| Concepts, Variables, and Units of Analysis | |
| Determining What Is Known | |
| Building a Bibliography Serious Political Science Research Begins (But Does Not End) with the Library | |
| Developing a Strategy for Finding Sources and Keeping a Record | |
| Finding Resources Determining Whether Sources Are Relevant | |
| Reviewing Previous Research Reading and Evaluating | |
| Empirical Political Research | |
| Reading and Dissecting an Article Reporting Research "Gender and Citizen Participation | |
| Is There a Different Voice?" | |
| Writing a Review Comparing Research Reports | |
| Assessing Relationships | |
| Association or Causality? | |
| Looking for Explanations Research Design | |
| Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Measuring Variables From Abstract Concept to Concrete Measurement | |
| Concepts and Variables Operationalization and Measurement From Conceptual to Operational Hypotheses | |
| Data Collection | |
| Organizing and Managing | |
| Data Mounds of Data | |
| Data Analysis Software Codebooks | |
| Running a Frequency Distribution to Describe Your Data | |
| How to Achieve Maximum Representativeness | |
| Sampling Choosing Representative Units of Analysis | |
| The Concept and Terminology of Sampling Types of Samples | |
| Sample Error and Sample Size | |
| Collecting Data Using Surveys Acquiring | |
| Survey Data Developing Questions | |
| Assembling the Survey Instrument | |
| Administering the Survey Secondary Analysis of Survey Data | |
| Collecting and Organizing Data from Published Sources | |
| Previously Collected Data | |
| Published Data | |
| Published Data on Geographic Regions | |
| Organizations Published Data on People Media Messages | |
| Content Analysis | |
| Studying Only a Few Cases | |
| Intensive Approaches Extensive and Intensive Approaches | |
| Case Studies Experimentation | |
| Q-Technique Focus Groups | |
| Analyzing and Reporting Results | |
| How to Describe and Summarize a Single Variable | |
| Why Statistics? | |
| How Many Variables at What Level of Measurement? | |
| Variables Measured at the Nominal and Ordinal Levels | |
| Variables Measured at the Interval and Ratio Levels | |
| Constructing and Interpreting Bivariate Tables | |
| Tables Tell Us a Lot Characteristics and Construction of Bivariate | |
| Tables Alternative Means for Organizing Percentage Tables | |
| Graphing and Describing Linear Bivariate Relationships | |
| Relationships Between Two Interval/Ratio Variables Interpreting a Scatterplot by Using a Regression Line | |
| Analyzing More Than Two Variables | |
| Sorting Out Multiple Influences | |
| Nominal- and Ordinal-Level | |
| Data Interval- and Ratio-Level Data | |
| Determining the Statistical | |
| Significance of Results | |
| Sample Versus Population Relationships | |
| The Framework of Statistical Significance Tests of Statistical Significance | |
| Reporting the Results of Empirical Political Research | |
| Pulling It All Together | |
| The Work Is Not Finished Until You Communicate | |
| Your Results Forms of Reporting Empirical | |
| Political Research Organization and Presentation of the Elements of a Research Report | |
| Writing Style and Form Presenting Quantitative Results | |
| Ethical Considerations in Reporting Research | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Random Numbers | |
| Critical Values of Chi Square | |
| Critical Values of t | |
| Critical Values of F | |
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