Political science research methods in action / edited by Michael Bruter and Martin Lodge.
"What are the common challenges that researchers face when designing and performing research? What are the choices and trade-offs that social scientists encounter when seeking to implement a fascinating idea? This volume brings together world-leading scholars from a range of political research metho...
| Uniform Title: | Research methods series.
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| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Research methods series.
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| Physical Description: | x, 261 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
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- 1. Introduction: Writer's Block; Michael Bruter and Martin Lodge
- PART I: APPROACHING AND MEASURING SOCIAL SCIENCE OBJECTS
- 2. Measuring the Immeasurable? Capturing Citizens' European Identity; Michael Bruter
- 3. Decoding Manifestoes and other Political Texts
- the Case of Extreme Right Ideology; Sarah Harrison
- 4. Reaction Time Measures in Implicit Attitudes Research; Brad Verhulst and Milton Lodge
- 5. Studying Party Choice; Mark Franklin and Maja Renko
- 6. Into the Archives; Ben Wellings
- PART II: MAKING SENSE OF DATA
- 7. Euro-Visions: An Analysis of Visual Imagery in Television News; Jessica Bain and Natalia Chaban
- 8. When Access is Restricted: Craftiness and Combining Methods in the Study of a Secretive Elite; Julie Gervais
- 9. Semi-Structured Interviews and Informal Institutions: Getting Inside Executive Government; Martin Lodge
- 10. Error-Correction as a Concept and as a Method: Time Series Analysis of Policy-Opinion Responsiveness; Will Jennings
- 11. Working Backwards? Using Simulation to Sort out Empirical Inconsistencies; Robert Erikson, Aaron Strauss and Michael Bruter
- 12. Conclusion; Michael Bruter and Martin Lodge.