John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant. If this is the case, methods are always political, and it raises the question of what kinds of social realities we want to create. Most current methods look for clarity and precision. It is usually said that only poo...(展开全部)

Careful work with concepts is a cornerstone of good social science methodology. Concepts and Method in Social Science demonstrates the crucial role of concepts, providing a timely contribution that draws both on the classic work of Giovanni Sartori and the writing of a younger generation of scholars. In this volume, major writings of Sartori are juxtaposed with other work that ...(展开全部)

米歇尔·刘易斯-伯克 美国爱荷华大学政治科学系温德尔·米勒（F. Wendell Miller）杰出及讲席教授。自1988年以来，他一直在主持SAGE出版社的“社会科学定量研究应用丛书（Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences，QASS）”的编写。此外，他还是《法国政治学》（French Politics）杂志的编辑并曾担任过《美国政治学杂志》（American Journal of Political Science）的编辑。他独著或与他人合著的专著或文章有110多部（篇）。他在方法方面的出版物包括《实用回归法导论》（Applied Regression: An Introduction）和《数据分析导论》（Data Analysis: An Introduction）。他在政治科学的诸多领域...(展开全部)

This book enables STEMM researchers to write effective papers for publication as well as other research-related texts such as a doctoral thesis, technical report, or conference abstract. Science Research Writing uses a reverse-engineering approach to writing developed from extensive work with STEMM researchers at Imperial College London. This approach unpacks current models of ...(展开全部)

While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse acade...(展开全部)

Reflecting the rising popularity of research that combines qualitative and quantitative social science, Multi-Method Social Science provides the first systematic guide to designing multi-method research. It argues that methods can be productively combined using the framework of integrative multi-method research, with one method used to carry out a final causal inference, and me...(展开全部)

Reflecting the rising popularity of research that combines qualitative and quantitative social science, Multi-Method Social Science provides the first systematic guide to designing multi-method research. It argues that methods can be productively combined using the framework of integrative multi-method research, with one method used to carry out a final causal inference, and me...(展开全部)

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empir...(展开全部)