Designing Social Inquiry (eBook)

Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, New Edition

Robert O. Keohane, Gary King, Sidney Verba (Autoren)

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2021
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22464-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The classic work on qualitative methods in political scienceDesigning Social Inquiry presents a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science, showing how the same logic of inference underlies both. This stimulating book discusses issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and the uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and getting the most out of qualitative research. It addresses topics such as interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. The book only uses mathematical notation to clarify concepts, and assumes no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics.Featuring a new preface by Robert O. Keohane and Gary King, this edition makes an influential work available to new generations of qualitative researchers in the social sciences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Accuracy and precision • Addition • Alternative hypothesis • Analogy • Anecdote • Bias of an estimator • Calculation • Case study • Categorization • causal inference • Causality • Certainty • Ceteris paribus • comparative politics • Conditional independence • Control variable • Criticism • data set • Decision-Making • Elaboration • Empirical Research • Endogeneity (econometrics) • error • estimation • Estimator • expected value • Explanation • falsifiability • general knowledge • Graduate school • Harvard University • hypothesis • Ideology • income • incumbent • inefficiency • inference • Inquiry • Instance (computer science) • Institution • International Relations • Level of Analysis • Likelihood Function • linear regression • Logic • Measurement • Methodology • Multicollinearity • Observation • Observational error • of education • Opinion Poll • Parameter • participant observation • phenomenon • philosophy of science • Philosophy of social science • Political Science • Politics • Prediction • Principle • Prior probability • Probability • Process tracing • Psychology • Qualitative research • quantitative analyst • Quantity • randomness • Random Variable • reason • Regime • Regression Analysis • reproducibility • Requirement • Research Program • result • Sampling (Statistics) • Science • Scientific Method • scientific theory • Selection bias • Seminar • Sidney Verba • small number • Social Science • Special case • Statistic • statistician • Statistics • Suggestion • theory • Trade-off • Uncertainty • uniqueness • Variable (mathematics) • Variance • Voter turnout • Voting • Voting Behavior
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22464-1 / 0691224641
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22464-0 / 9780691224640