Doing Research Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis

Name: Doing Research Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis
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ISBN: 9780761927792

ISBN-10: 0761927794

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Edition: 2005

Authors: Daniel Druckman

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Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis is the first research methods text devoted to conflict analysis and resolution. It begins with a discussion of the philosophical foundations for doing research, providing guidelines on how to develop research questions and how these questions can be addressed with various methodologies. The book presents a wide-ranging treatment of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the design and analysis of problems of conflict. The approaches covered include experiments, simulations and models, surveys, single and comparative case studies, ethnographies, content analysis, narrative analysis, evaluation research, action research, and… research consulting. These approaches come alive in a variety of applications culled from the published literature. A concluding chapter provides an integration of the various methodologies, including their complementary strengths. Throughout the book, author Daniel Druckman illustrates the value of a multi-method approach to doing research on conflict analysis and more generally across the social sciences. Key Features Guides readers through how to do literature reviews and ask research questions, easing students into the research process Weaves together qualitative and quantitative, as well as deductive and inductive, approaches to analysis, allowing for the widest possible diversity in methodology Includes numerous examples from published articles and dissertations and a discussion of research consulting Doing Research is perfectly suited as a text for research methods courses across the social sciences, especially those dealing with conflict analysis in departments of political science, communication, psychology, sociology, and management. Professional researchers and consultants will also want to add this book to their libraries for guidance on multi-method techniques. "This is an extremely important book for our field because it is the first research methods book that focuses on techniques that are common in this area but transcends disciplines. I am confident that the book will be used widely in our field because it is both practical and engaging." -- William A. Donohoe, Michigan State University Doing Research is a gem. It provides multiple research methods and models focusing on conflict analysis and resolution that can be used by any student in a variety of social science disciplines or fields of study. I wish this book had been written 20 years ago. Brian Polkinghorn, Salisbury State University Doing Research is the most widely acclaimed book on research methods for conflict resolution students to appear in recent years. The book provides a wonderfully rich array of ideas about ways to do research for both the scholar and practitioner--pracademic--enriching the analysis and practice in the conflict resolution field. The author has a diverse intellectual background and his wide-ranging research experience informs the contributions made by this book to conflict analysis and resolution and to related social-science fields. Sean Byrne, University of Manitoba

Book details

List price: $151.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Daniel Druckman is a 2004-2005 visiting Professor at the University of Queensland's Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Brisbane, Australia. He is the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he hasnbsp;coordinated the doctoral program at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR).nbsp; He is also a member of the faculty at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey and has held senior positions at several consulting firms, as well as at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and was awarded a best-in-field prize from the American…



Preface


Prologue


Doing Research on Conflict


Part Introduction


Why Do Research?


Research Foundations: Debating Points


Research Motivations, Assumptions, Questions


Some Contributions from Research on Conflict


Discussion Questions


Getting Started to Do Research


Where Ideas Come From


Choosing a Research Topic


Alternative Methodological Approaches


Choosing an Approach


Discussion Questions


Performing Experiments


Part Introduction


Designing Experiments and Conducting Simulations


The Experimental Method: An Overview


Internal and External Validity


Experimental Designs: Examples from CA&R


Summary


Discussion Questions


Evaluating Data from Experiments: Methods of Analysis


Essential Ideas of Statistical Analysis


Measurement and Statistical Power: Two-Group Designs


Measurement and Power: Three-Group Designs


Factorial Designs


Repeated Measures and Other ANOVA Designs


Summary


Discussion Questions


Designing and Conducting Surveys


Part Introduction


Survey Research


Overview


Survey Research Design


Measurement


Sampling


Data Collection


Ethics


Conclusions


Discussion Questions


Doing Case-Based Research


The Case-Study Method: An Overview


Enhanced-Case and Time Series Analyses


Theory and the Case Study


Time-Series Designs and Analyses


Systematic Expert Judgment


Qualitative Time-Series Analysis


Summary


Comparative Case Study Approaches


Focussed Case Comparisons


Aggregate Case Comparisons


Discussion Questions


Writing Ethnographies


Part Introduction


Ethnographic Methods


What is Ethnography?


Why do Ethnography?


The Logic of Ethnography


Making Sense of Other Worlds


Taking Notes


The Ethnographer's Tool Kit


Discussion Questions


Analyzing Documents: Texts and Process Analysis


Part Introduction


Content Analysis


Overview of the Approach


Technical Issues for the Content Analyst


Content Analysis Applications


Discussion Questions


Narrative Analysis


Overview of the Approach


Narrative Theory


Analysis of Narratives


Discussion Questions


Evaluating Interventions and Applying Research


Part Introduction


Evaluation Research


Challenges of Evaluation


Tasks in an Evaluation Project


Evaluation Issues


Evaluating Interventions: An Example of a Framework


Discussion Questions


Research for Action and Consulting


Basic and Applied Research


Action Research


Research Consulting


Discussion Questions


Concluding


Part Introduction


From Philosophies to Research Methods: The Value of Doing Research in Conflict Analysis and Resolution


Doing Research: Philosophies and Methodologies


Research Issues


Summary of Methods Covered


Comparing the Methodologies: Experiments, Surveys, and Case Studies


Types of Data


Wrapping Up


Epilogue


References