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Research design in political science : how to practice what they preach / edited by Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-239) and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780230019478 (alk. paper) 0230019471 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2007048424

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA768361 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013828587 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political science--Research.

LC Class. No.: JA86 / R38 2011