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Key Research Concepts in Politics and International Relations.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446290415
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.072
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Action Research -- Autobiographical/Biogrpahical Research -- Behaviouralism -- Case Studies -- Causality and Correlations -- Comparative Method -- Concepts -- Content Analysis -- Deduction/Induction -- Discourse Analysis -- Documentary Analysis -- Ecological Fallacy -- Empirical Analysis -- Epistemology -- Ethics -- Ethnography and Ethnomethodology -- Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPM) -- Feminism/Feminist Methodologies -- Focus Groups -- Hypothesis Testing and Inference -- Interviewing -- Levels of Measurement -- Methods -- Methodology -- Narratives -- Observation -- Official Data -- Ontology -- Paradigm -- Positivism -- Post-positivism -- Presenting Quantitative Analysis -- Primary Sources -- Qualitative Methods -- Quantitative Methods -- Rational Choice -- Realism -- Reliability -- Sampling -- Secondary Analysis -- Survey Design -- Theory -- Triangulation -- Validity -- Variables -- Index.
Summary: An invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Each entry is consistently structured and cross-relates entries, it contains examples and can be used across an entire degree.
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Cover -- Contents -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Action Research -- Autobiographical/Biogrpahical Research -- Behaviouralism -- Case Studies -- Causality and Correlations -- Comparative Method -- Concepts -- Content Analysis -- Deduction/Induction -- Discourse Analysis -- Documentary Analysis -- Ecological Fallacy -- Empirical Analysis -- Epistemology -- Ethics -- Ethnography and Ethnomethodology -- Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPM) -- Feminism/Feminist Methodologies -- Focus Groups -- Hypothesis Testing and Inference -- Interviewing -- Levels of Measurement -- Methods -- Methodology -- Narratives -- Observation -- Official Data -- Ontology -- Paradigm -- Positivism -- Post-positivism -- Presenting Quantitative Analysis -- Primary Sources -- Qualitative Methods -- Quantitative Methods -- Rational Choice -- Realism -- Reliability -- Sampling -- Secondary Analysis -- Survey Design -- Theory -- Triangulation -- Validity -- Variables -- Index.

An invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Each entry is consistently structured and cross-relates entries, it contains examples and can be used across an entire degree.

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