Political Science Research in Practice

Name: Political Science Research in Practice
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ISBN: 9780415887731

ISBN-10: 0415887739

ISBN-13: 9780415887731

Edition: 2013

Authors: Akan Malici, Elizabeth S. Smith

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Nothing rings truer to those teaching political science research methods: students hate taking this course. Tackle the challenge and turn the standard research methods teaching model on its head with Political Science Research in Practice. Akan Malici and Elizabeth Smith engage students first with pressing political questions and then demonstrate how a researcher has gone about answering them, walking through real political science research that contributors have conducted. Through the exemplary use of survey research, experiments, field research, case studies, content analysis, interviews, document analysis, statistical research, and formal modeling, each chapter introduces students to a…

Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Stephen G. Walker is Professor Emeritus in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Akan Malici is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Furman University.



List of Tables and Figures


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgments


Preface



Why do We Need a Science of Politics?




How Do we Get a Science of Politics?




Case Study and the Comparative Method: Why Do States Join Institutions?




Field Research: Zhuang Ethnic Identity and the Chinese State




Interviews: What are the Pathways to Human Rights Activism?




Statistical Research: To Naturalize or Not to Naturalize?




Survey Research: Religion and Electoral Behavior in the United States, 1936-2008




Secondary Data Analysis: A Program Evaluation of School Vouchers in Milwaukee




Content Analysis: Local Media and Congress




Experimental Research: If Bill Clinton Were a Woman?




Formal Modeling: Cultural Icons of U.S. Foreign Policy




Normative and Ethical Considerations of Political Science Research



Glossary


References


Index