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Doing Empirical Political Research
James M. Carlson, Providence College
Mark S. Hyde, Providence College
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Chapter 1:
How Do We Know What's True?
Chapter 2:
Using the Scientific Method and Political Science
Chapter 3:
Formulating Problems and Hypotheses
Chapter 4:
Building a Bibliography: Determining What is Known
Chapter 5:
Reviewing Previous Research
Chapter 6:
Assessing Relationships: Association or Causality?
Chapter 7:
Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Measuring Variables
Chapter 8:
Organizing and Managing Data
Chapter 9:
How to Achieve Maximum Representativeness: Sampling
Chapter 10:
Collecting Data Using Surveys
Chapter 11:
Collecting and Organizing Data from Published Sources
Chapter 12:
Studying only a Few Cases: Intensive Approaches
Chapter 13:
How to Describe and Summarize a Single Variable
Chapter 14:
Constructing and Interpreting Bivariate Tables
Chapter 15:
Graphing and Describing Linear Bivariate Relationships
Chapter 16:
Analyzing More Than Two Variables
Chapter 17:
Determining the Statistical Significance of Results
Chapter 18:
Reporting the Results of Empirical Political Research: Pulling It All Together
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