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Applied Policy Research: Concepts and Cases, 2nd Edition
By Peter J. Haas, J. Fred Springer
Many textbooks on policy research focus on methodological and statistical theories, while leaving students little indication of how they will actually apply them to their future policy positions. Moreover, the theories they do teach are often not practical for the research that students will do...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-80508-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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A Positive Political Theory Primer, 2nd Edition
By Peter C. Ordeshook
A Positive Political Theory Primer is designed to introduce students to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible text covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the reader constantly in touch with why political science as a whole would benefit...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-99542-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Understanding Methods: Coping with the Quantitative - Qualitative Divide
By Susan Banducci, Marianne Franklin
This textbook is designed to introduce advanced undergraduates and graduate students to the research process. It explains how the research process works, from the initial research question to formulating an overall research design in line with contemporary disciplinary and...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-49080-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Conducting Terrorism Field Research: A Guide
Edited by Adam Dolnik
This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorist fieldwork. The past decade has seen an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-60931-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods
Edited by Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann
It is now nearly fifteen years since Marcus (1995) published a cornerstone text arguing for the adoption of ‘multi-sited’ approaches in ethnography. Over that time, a growing number of researchers across the social sciences have been attracted to such strategies since they offer powerful ways to...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-96524-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social
Edited by Lury Celia, Nina Wakeford
Methods texts in social and cultural research have not kept pace with the increasing importance of interdisciplinary work, changing conceptions of the empirical, and the need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. This volume proposes a set of new approaches for the empirical...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-57481-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Understanding Peace Research: Methods and Challenges
By Magnus Oberg, Kristine Hoglund
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different methods and sources of information-gathering for peace and conflict students and researchers, as well as the challenges presented by such work....
March 2011 | 978-0-415-57198-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Thinking About Congress: Essays on Congressional Change
By Lawrence C. Dodd
In the mid-1970s, just when Congress seemed static and incapable of rejuvenation, the institution experienced an unexpected and transformative change. What accounted for this dynamic process and continues to explain other more recent upheavals and waves of reform? This volume charts the...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-99156-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Interpretive Approaches to Research Design: Concepts and Processes
By Dvora Yanow, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Research design is fundamentally central to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. This book is a practical, short, simple, and authoritative examination of the concepts and issues in interpretive research design, looking across this approach’s methods of...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-87808-1 | Paperback (Routledge)