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| essentials of political analysis: The Fundamentals of Political Science Research Paul M. Kellstedt, Guy D. Whitten, 2009 This textbook introduces the scientific study of politics, supplying students with the basic tools to be critical consumers and producers of scholarly research. |
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| essentials of political analysis: The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis Robert E. Goodin, Charles Tilly, 2008-06-20 The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis of the political world. The work in the volume has a common aim in being sensitive to the thoughts of contextual nuances that disappear from large-scale quantitative modelling or explanations based on abstract, general, universal laws of human behavior. It shows that 'context matters' in a great many ways: philosophical context matters; psychological context matters; cultural and historical contexts matter; place, population, and technology all matter. By showcasing scholars who specialize in the analysis of all these contexts side-by-side, the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis shows how political scientists can take those crucial contextual factors systematically into account. |
| essentials of political analysis: Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research Jeff Gill, 2006-04-24 More than ever before, modern social scientists require a basic level of mathematical literacy, yet many students receive only limited mathematical training prior to beginning their research careers. This textbook addresses this dilemma by offering a comprehensive, unified introduction to the essential mathematics of social science. Throughout the book the presentation builds from first principles and eschews unnecessary complexity. Most importantly, the discussion is thoroughly and consistently anchored in real social science applications, with more than 80 research-based illustrations woven into the text and featured in end-of-chapter exercises. Students and researchers alike will find this first-of-its-kind volume to be an invaluable resource.--BOOK JACKET. |
| essentials of political analysis: Writing a Research Paper in Political Science Lisa A. Baglione, 2018-12-31 Even students capable of writing excellent essays still find their first major political science research paper an intimidating experience. Crafting the right research question, finding good sources, properly summarizing them, operationalizing concepts and designing good tests for their hypotheses, presenting and analyzing quantitative as well as qualitative data are all tough-going without a great deal of guidance and encouragement. Writing a Research Paper in Political Science breaks down the research paper into its constituent parts and shows students what they need to do at each stage to successfully complete each component until the paper is finished. Practical summaries, recipes for success, worksheets, exercises, and a series of handy checklists make this a must-have supplement for any writing-intensive political science course. |
| essentials of political analysis: Statistics for Political Analysis Theresa Marchant-Shapiro, 2014-01-15 Statistics are just as vital to understanding political science as the study of institutions, but getting students to understand them when teaching a methods course can be a big challenge. Statistics for Political Analysis makes understanding the numbers easy. The only introduction to statistics book written specifically for political science undergraduates, this book explains each statistical concept in plain language—from basic univariate statistics and the basic measures of association to bivariate and multivariate regression—and uses real world political examples. Students learn the relevance of statistics to political science, how to understand and calculate statistics mathematically, and how to obtain them using SPSS. All calculations are modeled step-by-step, giving students needed practice to master the process without making it intimidating. Each chapter concludes with exercises that get students actively applying the steps and building their professional skills through data calculation, analysis, and memo writing. |
| essentials of political analysis: Doing Research in Political Science Paul Pennings, Hans Keman, Jan Kleinnijenhuis, 2005-11-11 This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research... an excellent introduction to the comparative method giving an authoritative overview over the research process - Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern Doing Research in Political Science is the book for mastering the comparative method in all the social sciences - Jan-Erik Lane, University of Geneva This book has established itself as a concise and well-readable text on comparative methods and statistics in political science I...strongly recommend it. - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Philipps-University Marburg This thoroughly revised edition of the popular textbook offers an accessible but comprehensive introduction to comparative research methods and statistics for students of political science. Clearly organized around three parts, the text introduces the main theories and methodologies used in the discipline. Part 1 frames the comparative approach within the methodological framework of the political and social sciences. Part 2 introduces basic descriptive and inferential statistical methods as well as more advanced multivariate methods used in quantitative political analysis. Part 3 applies the methods and techniques of Parts 1 & 2 to research questions drawn from contemporary themes and issues in political science. Incorporating practice exercises, ideas for further reading and summary questions throughout, Doing Research in Political Science provides an invaluable step-by-step guide for students and researchers in political science, comparative politics and empirical political analysis. |
| essentials of political analysis: Empirical Political Analysis Craig Leonard Brians, 2016-05-23 Empirical Political Analysis introduces students to the full range of qualitative and quantitative methods used in political science research. Organized around all of the stages of the research process, this comprehensive text surveys designing experiments, conducting research, evaluating results, and presenting findings. With exercises in the text and in a companion lab manual, Empirical Political Analysis gives students applied insights on the scopes and methods of political science research. Features: Offers comprehensive coverage of quantitative and qualitative research methods in political science, a hallmark since it first published over 25 years ago. Covers the research process from start to finish—hypothesis formation, literature review, research design, data gathering, data analysis, and research report writing. Includes in-depth examples of political science research to give discipline-specific instruction on political analysis. Features a “Practical Research Ethics” box in every chapter to make students aware of common ethical dilemmas and potential solutions to them. Written by political scientists who actively publish in subfields ranging from comparative politics to environmental policy to political communications to voting behavior. Includes learning goals, key terms, and research examples to help students engage and explore the most important concepts. |
| essentials of political analysis: A Stata Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock, 2006-05-15 Tables and Figures ix Preface xiii Getting Started 1 Copying the Data Files to Floppy Disk or Other Portable Media 2 How to Handle the Datasets 2 Contents of the Datasets 4 Notes 4 Introduction to Stata 5 Commands Covered describe, codebook, set more off, search, help Changing General Preferences 5 Obtaining Information about a Dataset 6 Obtaining Information about Variables 9 Creating and Viewing a Log File 10 A Closer Look Obtaining Specific Variable Information with Define Notes 11 Printing Results 13 Getting Help 13 Exercises 17 Notes 17 Descriptive Statistics 19 Commands Covered tab1, summarize, sktest, histogram, Submit button Interpreting Measures of Central Tendency and Variation 19 Describing Nominal Variables 20 Describing Ordinal Variables 21 Describing Interval-level Variables 23 Obtaining Bar Charts and Histograms 27 Creating Bar Charts 27 Creating Histograms 32 A Closer Look The Submit Button and the OK Button: What's the Difference? 33 Exercises 35 Notes 40 Transforming Variables 43 Commands Covered recode, generate; generate, recode; xtile, nquantiles; generate; tabulate, generate; label variable; label define; label values; drop; aorder Transforming Categorical Variables 44 Transforming Interval-level Variables 46 A Closer Look The xtile Command 48 The label define and label values Commands 51 Creating an Additive Index 51 Creating Indicator Variables 53 Exercises 55 Notes 58 Making Comparisons 59 Commands Covered tabulate, column; tabulate, summarize; graph bar; format; replace Cross-tabulation Analysis 59 Mean Comparison Analysis 60 A Closer Look The format Command 62 Visualizing Relationships with Bar Charts 62 Graphing an Interval-level Dependent Variable 63 Graphing a Categorical Dependent Variable 67 A Closer Look The replace Command 70 Exercises 73 Notes 83 Making Controlled Comparisons 85 Commands Covered (prefix) bysort:, tabulate, col; tabulate, summarize; graph bar; if Cross-tabulation Analysis with a Control Variable 86 A Closer Look The if Qualifier 88 Bar Charts for Controlled Comparisons with a Categorical Dependent Variable 89 Mean Comparison Analysis with a Control Variable 91 Bar Charts for Controlled Comparisons with an Interval-level Dependent Variable 96 Exercises 98 Notes 105 Making Inferences about Sample Means 107 Commands Covered ttest; ttest, by; robvar, by Describing a Sample Mean 108 Testing the Difference between Two Sample Means 111 Exercises 116 Notes 118 Chi-square and Measures of Association 121 Commands Covered (tabulate option) chi2; (tabulate option) taub; (tabulate option) V; somersd; lambda; which; ssc install Installing lambda and somersd 122 Analyzing Ordinal-level Relationships 122 Analyzing Nominal-level Relationships 127 A Problem with Lambda 129 Exercises 130 Notes 136 Correlation and Linear Regression 137 Commands Covered correlate; regress; graph twoway (scatter); graph twoway (scatter)(lfit) The correlate Command and the regress Command 137 Creating a Scatterplot 139 A Closer Look R-squared and Adjusted R-squared: What's the Difference? 140 Exploring Multivariate Relationships with Regression 147 Exercises 150 Notes 156 Dummy Variables and Interaction Effects 159 Commands Covered xi: regress; char [omit]; test Regression with Dummy Variables A Closer Look The test Command 162 Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression 164 Graphing Linear Prediction Lines for Interaction Relationships 167 Exercises 173 Notes 178 Logistic Regression 181 Commands Covered logit; logistic; estimates store; Irtest, force; predict; adjust, by pr gen; quietly:; tabstat, by The logit Command and the logistic Command 182 Logistic Regression with Multiple Independent Variables 185 A Closer Look The estimates Command and the Irtest Command 187 Working with Predicted Probabilities: Models with One Independent Variable 188 Working with Predicted Probabilities: Models with Multiple Independent Variables 191 Exercises 196 Notes 201 Doing Your Own Political Analysis 203 Commands Covered insheet Five Doable Ideas 203 Political Knowledge 204 Economic Performance and Election Outcomes 204 State Courts and Criminal Procedure 204 Electoral Turnout in Comparative Perspective 205 Congress 205 Doing Research on the U.S. Senate 205 Finding Raw Data 206 How to Code Raw Data 206 A Closer Look The Stata Data Editor 208 Two Possible Coding Shortcuts 210 Importing Text Data 212 Writing It Up 215 The Research Question 215 Previous Research 216 Data, Hypotheses, and Analysis 216 Conclusions and Implications 216 Notes 217. |
| essentials of political analysis: Understanding Political Science Research Methods Maryann Barakso, Daniel M. Sabet, Brian Schaffner, 2013-12-04 This text starts by explaining the fundamental goal of good political science research—the ability to answer interesting and important questions by generating valid inferences about political phenomena. Before the text even discusses the process of developing a research question, the authors introduce the reader to what it means to make an inference and the different challenges that social scientists face when confronting this task. Only with this ultimate goal in mind will students be able to ask appropriate questions, conduct fruitful literature reviews, select and execute the proper research design, and critically evaluate the work of others. The authors' primary goal is to teach students to critically evaluate their own research designs and others’ and analyze the extent to which they overcome the classic challenges to making inference: internal and external validity concerns, omitted variable bias, endogeneity, measurement, sampling, and case selection errors, and poor research questions or theory. As such, students will not only be better able to conduct political science research, but they will also be more savvy consumers of the constant flow of causal assertions that they confront in scholarship, in the media, and in conversations with others. Three themes run through Barakso, Sabet, and Schaffner’s text: minimizing classic research problems to making valid inferences, effective presentation of research results, and the nonlinear nature of the research process. Throughout their academic years and later in their professional careers, students will need to effectively convey various bits of information. Presentation skills gleaned from this text will benefit students for a lifetime, whether they continue in academia or in a professional career. Several distinctive features make this book noteworthy: A common set of examples threaded throughout the text give students a common ground across chapters and expose them to a broad range of subfields in the discipline. Box features throughout the book illustrate the nonlinear, non-textbook reality of research, demonstrate the often false inferences and poor social science in the way the popular press covers politics, and encourage students to think about ethical issues at various stages of the research process. |
| essentials of political analysis: Stata Companion to Political Analysis Philip H Pollock III, 2010-10-19 Popular for its speed, flexibility, and attractive graphics, Stata is a powerful tool for political science students. With Pollock's second edition, students quickly learn Stata with step-by-step instruction, more than 50 exercises, customized datasets, annotated screen shots, boxes that highlight Stata's special capabilities, and guidance on using Stata to read raw data. Updates to this edition include: Comprehensive coverage of the Stata Graph Editor; Enhanced discussion of graph types, with brand-new coverage of group means and the twoway command; New and updated datasets, including GSS and NES (all datasets include additional variables for use on research papers, exams, or assignments); New end-of-chapter exercises, which gradually increase in difficulty to reinforce and build on key concepts; and Improved guidance on using Internet-available data, from downloading to inputting multiple formats- Excel, HTML, and PDF. |
| essentials of political analysis: Public Policy Michael E. Kraft, Scott R. Furlong, 2017-04-28 In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authors Michael Kraft and Scott Furlong introduce and fully integrate an evaluative approach to policy. The Sixth Edition of Public Policy offers a fully revised, concise review of institutions, policy actors, and major theoretical models as well as a discussion of the nature of policy analysis and its practice. Both the exposition and data have been updated to reflect major policy controversies and developments through the end of 2016, including new priorities of the Donald Trump administration. |
| essentials of political analysis: Foreign Policy Analysis Jean-Frédéric Morin, Jonathan Paquin, 2018-01-03 This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years. It provides the essentials of emerging theoretical trends, data and methodological pitfalls and major case-studies and is designed to be a key entry point for graduate students, upper-level undergraduates and scholars into the discipline. The volume features an eclectic panorama of different conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to foreign political analysis, focusing on different models of analysis such as two-level game analysis, bureaucratic politics, strategic culture, cybernetics, poliheuristic analysis, cognitive mapping, gender studies, groupthink and the systemic sources of foreign policy. The authors also clarify conceptual notions such as doctrines, ideologies and national interest, through the lenses of foreign policy analysis. |
| essentials of political analysis: Politics in Time Paul Pierson, 2011-09-19 This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that history matters. Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a snapshot view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing politics in time--constructing moving pictures rather than snapshots--can vastly enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics, and greatly improve the theories and methods that we use to explain them. Politics in Time opens a new window on the temporal aspects of the social world. It explores a range of important features and implications of evolving social processes: the variety of processes that unfold over significant periods of time, the circumstances under which such different processes are likely to occur, and above all, the significance of these temporal dimensions of social life for our understanding of important political and social outcomes. Ranging widely across the social sciences, Pierson's analysis reveals the high price social science pays when it becomes ahistorical. And it provides a wealth of ideas for restoring our sense of historical process. By placing politics back in time, Pierson's book is destined to have a resounding and enduring impact on the work of scholars and students in fields from political science, history, and sociology to economics and policy analysis. |
| essentials of political analysis: An IBM® SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock III, Barry C. Edwards, 2019-07-11 In Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards’ trusted IBM SPSS® workbook, students dive headfirst into actual political data and work with a software tool that prepares them not only for future political science research, but the job world as well. Students learn by doing with new guided examples, annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and exercises that reflect current scholarly debates in American political behavior and comparative politics. This Sixth Edition of An IBM SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis features thoroughly revised and updated datasets and is compatible with all post-12 releases of SPSS. |
| essentials of political analysis: Positive Political Theory I David Austen-Smith, Jeffrey S. Banks, 2000-12-27 A definitive, comprehensive, and analytically sophisticated treatment of the theory of collective preference |
| essentials of political analysis: Modern Political Analysis Robert A. Dahl, 1965 |
| essentials of political analysis: A Stata(r) Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock III, Barry Clayton Edwards, 2023-07-04 The Fifth Edition of A Stata® Companion to Political Analysis by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards teaches your students statistics by analyzing research-quality data in Stata. It follows the structure of Essentials of Political Analysis with software instructions, explanations of tests, and many exercises for practice. |
| essentials of political analysis: Experimental Foundations of Political Science Donald R. Kinder, Thomas R. Palfrey, 1993 Shows the range and power of experimental methods in political science |
| essentials of political analysis: Country Analysis David M. Currie, 2016-05-13 The ability to connect theoretical macroeconomics to the analysis of the economic and political performance of a given country is an essential skill for global investors. In Country Analysis: Understanding Economic and Political Performance, David M. Currie takes a unique analytical approach to the subject, clearly demonstrating the relationship between theory and application in investing practices. This valuable book shows how to interpret country performance and provides the practising investor with sufficient background on economic principles to be able to understand and interpret country summaries that appear in business periodicals and other media. It covers key topics such as the Washington Consensus and the three major categories of economic decisions - fiscal policy, monetary policy and trade policy. It includes an important chapter on the political aspect of government performance, to give the reader an understanding of economic decisions in their true context. Country Analysis explains the reasoning behind the criteria used in evaluating country risk and economic performance, without the need for a sophisticated understanding of economics or mathematics. Each chapter includes a series of text boxes that include real-life examples from business periodicals to reinforce what is discussed and enable readers to practice identifying and interpreting relevant information. Practitioners making investment decisions in global markets, as well as students in MBA and other courses, will find this immensely practical book a valuable aid to critical decision making. |
| essentials of political analysis: Political Science Research Methods Janet Buttolph Johnson, H. T. Reynolds, Jason D. Mycoff, 2015-08-24 Understand the “how” and the “why” behind research in political science. Step by step, Political Science Research Methods walks students through the logic of research design, carefully explaining how researchers choose which method to employ. The Eighth Edition of this trusted resource offers a greater emphasis on the ways in which particular methods are used by undergraduates, expanded coverage of the role of the Internet in research and analysis, and more international examples. Practice makes perfect. In the new fourth edition of the accompanying workbook, Working with Political Science Research Methods, students are given the perfect opportunity to practice each of the methods presented in the core text. This helpful supplement breaks each aspect of the research process into manageable parts and features new exercises and updated data sets. A solutions manual with answers to the workbook is available to adopters. |
| essentials of political analysis: Essentials of Visual Interpretation Rachel R Reynolds, Greg Niedt, 2020-12-29 Essentials of Visual Interpretation explains how to talk and write critically about visual media and to examine how evolving visual environments, media, and technologies affect human selfunderstanding and culture formation. Lively and accessibly written chapters provide a solid foundation in the tools and ideas of visual meaning, familiarizing readers with a growing, cross-cultural subfield, and preparing them to pursue thoughtful work in a variety of related disciplines. The authors include rich examples and illustrations—ranging from cave paintings to memes, from optical science to visual analytics, from ancient pictographs to smart phones—that engage students with the fascinating complexity of visual interpretation. Each chapter introduces students to key terms and concepts relevant to visual analysis, with ideas for short individual or group exercises to enhance understanding. The book is ideal as a primer in visual analysis and visual communication for students in courses within communication studies, cultural studies, digital humanities, semiotics, media studies, and visual anthropology. Online support materials include multimedia activities for students and links to additional resources for students and instructors. |
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Tests of Significance and Measures of Association. 7. Correlation and Regression. 8. Thinking Empirically, Thinking Probabilistically.
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