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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