This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference, including model specification, and emphasizes the importance of strong research design over complex statistical analysis. Surveyi...(展开全部)

This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference, including model specification, and emphasizes the importance of strong research design over complex statistical analysis. Surveyi...(展开全部)

One of the fruits of the Scientific Revolution was the idea of a social science - a science of government, of individual behavior, and of society - that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. Th...(展开全部)

The core of this book consists of two long essays. The first focuses on the role of analogies as linking factors between the two realms. Examples are drawn from the physics of rational mechanics and energy physics and from the biology of cell theory. The second essay looks closely at the relations between the natural and the social sciences in the period of the Scientific Revol...(展开全部)

In 1959 C. P. Snow delivered his now-famous Rede Lecture, 'The Two Cultures,' a reflection on the academy based on the premise that intellectual life was divided into two cultures: the arts and humanities on one side and science on the other. Since then, a third culture, generally termed 'social science' and comprised of fields such as sociology, political science, economics, a...(展开全部)

In 1959 C. P. Snow delivered his now-famous Rede Lecture, 'The Two Cultures,' a reflection on the academy based on the premise that intellectual life was divided into two cultures: the arts and humanities on one side and science on the other. Since then, a third culture, generally termed 'social science' and comprised of fields such as sociology, political science, economics, a...(展开全部)

尼尔·丁·斯梅尔塞(1930～ ),美国社会学家:本书是作者研究社会科学方法论问题的一部力作,对战后在西方社会科学领域,发展起来的一系列比较方法进行系统分析,追溯它们来龙去脉,评判它们的是非功过;而且对这些方法的理论基础、实用价值以及未来发展方法,都作了深刻阐述。

尼尔·丁·斯梅尔塞(1930～ ),美国社会学家:本书是作者研究社会科学方法论问题的一部力作,对战后在西方社会科学领域,发展起来的一系列比较方法进行系统分析,追溯它们来龙去脉,评判它们的是非功过;而且对这些方法的理论基础、实用价值以及未来发展方法,都作了深刻阐述。

The book considers the past accomplishments and future agendas of comparative-historical research in the social sciences. It defines the distinctiveness of this type of research and explores its strengths in explaining important outcomes (e.g. revolutions, social provision, democracy) in the world. It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and t...(展开全部)