| Description |
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Designing research in political science / Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig -- Increasing the relevance of research questions / Matthias Lehnert, Bernhard Miller, and Arndt Wonka -- Concept specification in political science research / Arndt Wonka -- Typologies in social inquiry / Matthias Lehnert -- Making measures capture concepts / Bernhard Miller -- Achieving comparability of secondary data / Julia Rathke -- Dealing effectively with selection bias in large-n research / Janina Thiem -- Case selection and selection bias in small-n research / Dirk Leuffen -- Selecting independent variables / Ulrich Sieberer -- Discriminating among rival explanations : some tools for small-n researchers / Andreas Dür -- Falsification in theory-guided empirical social research : how to change a tire while riding your bicycle / Dirk De Bièvre -- Lessons for the dialogue between theory and data / Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-239) and index |
| Subject |
Political science -- Research.
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| Author |
Gschwend, Thomas.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, 1963-
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| LC no. |
2007048424 |
| ISBN |
0230019471 (alk. paper) |
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0230301274 |
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9780230019478 (alk. paper) |
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9780230301276 |
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