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This major new text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics, an assessment of their strengths and limitations, and an account of their relationship to the evolution of the discipline of political science. Illustrated throughout with boxed examples of real political research, the book ranges widely from substantial coverage of statistical methods to the use of archives, interviews, discourse analysis and the internet.Two concluding chapters cover ethical issues and the relationship between theories and methods with a special emphasis on combining traditions and approaches.
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Peter Burnham is a Reader in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
Karin Gilland is at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Berne, Switzerland.
Wyn Grant and Zig Layton-Henry are Professors of Politics at the University of Warwick.
Karin Gilland is at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Berne, Switzerland.
Wyn Grant and Zig Layton-Henry are Professors of Politics at the University of Warwick.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0333962532
- ISBN 13 9780333962534
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages308
- EditorBurnham Peter
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Book Description Condition: As New. 2004. illustrated edition. Hardcover. "1Kg. Paperback. As new. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: methods, methodology and making sense of the study of politics -- The discipline of politics -- Research design -- Comparative methodology -- Surveys and opinion polls -- Descriptive statistics -- Making inferences -- Documentary and archival analysis -- The Internet and political research -- Elite interviewing -- Participant observation and the analysis of communications -- Ethics and political research -- Conclusion: challenging the mainstream and the qualitative/quantitative divide. Commissioning organisation: Peter Burnham . [et al.]. xi, 308 p. ill. 24 cm. Associated Names: Burnham, Peter, Associated Dates: 1959-. ". Keywords: "Science & Nature - Experiments, Instruments & Measurements - Methods,Subjects - Education & Languages - New & Used Textbooks - Social Sciences - Politics & Internationa". Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KEX0163915
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