The Essentials of Political Analysis, 3rd Edition + An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition + SPSS Student Version Software package - Softcover

Pollock, Philip H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604265027 ISBN 13: 9781604265026

Publisher: CQ Press, 2008

Synopsis

SPSS Student-Version Software. Now Available! Want the convenience of having the SPSS** software (student version, v18) bundled with the book? CQ Press now offers that option as well for just $25 more, it's a great value. Package "The Essentials of Political Analysis, 3rd Edition" with "An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition" and SPSS student-version software! Simply order ISBN 9781604265026. "The Essentials of Political Analysis, 3rd Edition": Student anxiety runs high given the seemingly intimidating nature of the methods course. Philip Pollock's first order of business is to get math-phobic students comfortable learning and using the tools of political analysis. Brief and accessible, his text walks students through the basics measuring concepts, formulating and testing hypotheses, describing variables, and uses key terms, chapter-opening objectives, more than eighty tables and figures, and class-tested chapter exercises to promote skill application and aid student review. Fully up-to-date with new exercises and data, this third edition includes a new chapter devoted to measuring and describing variables, as well as fresh coverage of multiple regression and research design. "An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition": In his popular workbook, "An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis", Philip H. Pollock III gets students using actual political data and working with a software tool that prepares them for future political science courses. Now updated using SPSS 16.0, the new third edition is a no-nonsense and friendly introduction to using SPSS: students learn through a series of guided examples, reference 120 screenshots, and can count on step-by-step instructions to all procedures. As in previous editions, the workbook covers the full array of data analysis procedures from introductory to advanced, including descriptive statistics and data transformations, to dummy variables and interaction effects. A final chapter shows students how to code data and how to read it into SPSS. With 50 per cent more exercises than in the previous edition, students not only interact with a range of substantive political science questions, but encounter more exercises on comparative and international politics, investigating such topics as the relative importance of cultural and institutional factors in shaping political parties or the extent to which wealth is equally distributed within countries. The third edition also delves deeper into the use of graphic display to complement empirical results. Students learn state of the art editing techniques using SPSS Chart Editor, while following protocols described by leading experts in the graphic display of quantitative information. In addition to creating simple bar charts and line graphs, students will learn to produce scatterplots and logistic regression curves. The datasets have been thoroughly updated and expanded, and include a set for student version users. A solutions manual with answers to all of the exercises is available to adopters. The SPSS Student version is a limited version of the SPSS Base software. SPSS was acquired by IBM in October 2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1604265027
• ISBN 13: 9781604265026
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1