The Oxford handbook of political methodology /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:xiii, 880 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford handbooks of political science
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7369041
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Other authors / contributors:Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M., 1965-
Brady, Henry E.
Collier, David, 1942-
ISBN:9780199286546
019928654X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Political Science Methodology as a Disciplinary Crossroads: An Overview of Diverse Influence
  • 2. Building Blocks of Social Science Methodology
  • Part II. Intentionality, Rationality and Individual Action: Alternative Views
  • 3. Interpretive Perspectives: Meaning, Action and Intersubjectivity
  • 4. New Economic Perspectives: Beliefs, Signaling, Updating and Expectations
  • Part III. Concepts and Measurement
  • 5. Theoretical Approaches to Concepts
  • 6. The Evolving Influence of Psychometrics and Measurement Theory
  • 7. Measurement in Qualitative Research and Exemplars of Concept Formation. and Measurement
  • 8. General Lessons on Measurement
  • Part IV. Causality and Explanation in Social Research
  • 9. What is Causality?
  • 10. Statistical Framework for Inferring Causality
  • 11. Causal Inference in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • Part V. Quantitative Tools for Causal Inference
  • 12. History of Quantitative Methodology
  • 13. Bayesian Analysis
  • 14. Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data Technique
  • 15. Spatial Analysis
  • 16. Hierarchical Modeling
  • 17. Discrete Choice Modeling18. Wendy K. Cho, Charles Manski: Ecological Inference
  • 19. Survey Methodology
  • 20. Survival Analysis
  • 21. Time Series Analysis
  • 22. Potentials and Limits of Political Methodology in Macrocomparative Research Designs
  • Part VI. Qualitative Tools for Causal Inference
  • 23. Case Studies, Process Tracing and Structured focused Comparison
  • 24. Comparative Historical Methods
  • 25. Fuzzy Set Analysis: Calibration versus Measurement
  • 26. Case-Orientated Configurational Research Using QCA
  • 27. Interviewing, Ethnography and Qualitative Field Methods
  • Part VII.
  • 28. Integrating Measurement and Causal Inference
  • Part VIII.
  • 29. Methodology and Micro Foundations
  • 30. Studying Mechanisms: Strengthening Casual Inference in Quantitative Research
  • 31. Agent-Based Modeling
  • Part IX. Experiments, Quasi-Experiments and Natural Experiments
  • 32. Experimentation in Political Science
  • 33. Quasi-Experiments, Natural Experiments and Evaluation Research
  • Part X. Organizations and Institutions in the Field of Methodology
  • 34. ICPSR, CQRM and APSA Political Methodology and Qualitative Methods Section
  • 35. Forty Years of Publishing in Political Methodology: Sage Publications, Specialized Journals, Newsletters and Access to Mainstream Journals
  • Part II. Political Methodology: Old and New
  • 36. Making the Most of Complimentarily: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
  • 37. Intersections in the Trajectories of Qualitative and Qualitative Methods