Multi-Method Social Science

Jason Seawright

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Reflecting the rising popularity of research that combines qualitative and quantitative social science, Multi-Method Social Science provides the first... Lees meer

Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Against the backdrop of an explosion of interest in new techniques for data collection and theory testing, this volume provides a fresh programmatic s... Lees meer

Democratization and Research Methods

Michael Coppedge

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. T... Lees meer

Behind the Model

Peter Spiegler

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• This ambitious book looks 'behind the model' to reveal how economists use formal models to generate insights into the economy. Drawing on recent work ... Lees meer

Regression Inside Out

Eric W Schoon, David Melamed, Ronald L Breiger

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Linear regression analysis, with its many generalizations, is the predominant quantitative method used throughout the social sciences and beyond. The ... Lees meer

Process Tracing

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Advances in qualitative methods and recent developments in the philosophy of science have led to an emphasis on explanation via reference to causal me... Lees meer

Finding Pathways

Nicholas Weller, Jeb Barnes

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Social scientists have identified a need to move beyond the analysis of correlation among variables to the study of causal mechanisms that link them. ... Lees meer

Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference

Tasha Fairfield, Andrew E Charman

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Fairfield and Charman provide a modern, rigorous and intuitive methodology for case-study research to help social scientists and analysts make better ... Lees meer

Integrated Inferences

Macartan Humphreys, Alan M Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• There is a growing consensus in the social sciences on the virtues of research strategies that combine quantitative with qualitative tools of inferenc... Lees meer

Multi-Method Social Science

Jason Seawright

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Reflecting the rising popularity of research that combines qualitative and quantitative social science, Multi-Method Social Science provides the first... Lees meer

Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

Thad Dunning

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodol... Lees meer

Finding Your Social Science Project

John Gerring, Jason Seawright

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• The most important step in social science research is the first step - finding a topic. Unfortunately, little guidance on this crucial and difficult c... Lees meer

The Case for Case Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• This book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently 'loose' methodological moorings; and second... Lees meer

Finding Pathways

Nicholas Weller, Jeb Barnes

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Social scientists have identified a need to move beyond the analysis of correlation among variables to the study of causal mechanisms that link them. ... Lees meer

Case Study Research

John Gerring

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Case Study Research: Principles and Practices provides a general understanding of the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful i... Lees meer

The Art and Craft of Comparison

John Boswell, Jack Corbett, R A W Rhodes

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Is it possible to compare French presidential politics with village leadership in rural India? Most social scientists are united in thinking such unli... Lees meer

Integrated Inferences

Macartan Humphreys, Alan M Jacobs

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• There is a growing consensus in the social sciences on the virtues of research strategies that combine quantitative with qualitative tools of inferenc... Lees meer

Process Tracing

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Advances in qualitative methods and recent developments in the philosophy of science have led to an emphasis on explanation via reference to causal me... Lees meer

The Production of Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social sciences. Progress in these disciplin... Lees meer

Field Research in Political Science

Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M MacLean, Benjamin L Read

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains i... Lees meer

Finding Your Social Science Project

John Gerring, Jason Seawright

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• The most important step in social science research is the first step - finding a topic. Unfortunately, little guidance on this crucial and difficult c... Lees meer

Field Research in Political Science

Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M MacLean, Benjamin L Read

• Hardcover | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains i... Lees meer

Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference

Tasha Fairfield, Andrew E Charman

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Fairfield and Charman provide a modern, rigorous and intuitive methodology for case-study research to help social scientists and analysts make better ... Lees meer

Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

Thad Dunning

• Paperback | Engels | Strategies for Social Inquiry
• This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodol... Lees meer