TY - BOOK AU - Gschwend,Thomas AU - Schimmelfennig,Frank TI - Research design in political science: how to practice what they preach SN - 9780230019478 (alk. paper) AV - JA86 R38 2011 PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke [England], New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Political science KW - Research N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007048424-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007048424-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007048424-t.html ER -