Key Research Concepts in Politics and International Relations
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Key Research Concepts in Politics and International Relations

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Key Research Concepts in Politics and International Relations

About this book

From action research to validity, this innovative and informative text is an invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations.

Key Features:

- Each entry is consistently structured, providing: a clear definition, a focused explanation, a summary of current debates and areas of research, further reading, and references to other related concepts.

- Explains how and why particular research methods are used and highlights alternative research concepts and strategies.

- Cross-relates entries, enabling you to dip in to topics and follow threads throughout the book.

- Packed with illuminating examples to help you to apply theory to the ?real world? of political analysis.

An essential companion for students of Politics and International Relations at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Yes, you can access Key Research Concepts in Politics and International Relations by Lisa Harrison,Theresa Callan,SAGE Publications Ltd in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Política y relaciones internacionales & Política. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Index

  • action research 1, 49, 61
  • aide mémoire 73
  • Almond, G. and Verba, S. 7, 19, 22
  • Arber, S. and Ginn, J. 137
  • archives 35, 114, 136, 151
  • Aristotle 146
  • Armstrong, D. 131
  • Arzheimer, K. 38
  • Aspinwall, M. 85
  • autobiography 3
  • Bartle, J. 141
  • Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D. 78
  • behaviouralism 6, 40, 85, 99,101, 104, 123, 147
  • Bennett, A. and Elman, C. 118
  • Bernold, M. and Gehmacher, J. 115
  • Bernstein, R.A. and Dyer, J.A. 141-142
  • Bevir, M. and Rhodes, R.A.W. 88, 94
  • Bieler, A. and Morton, A.D. 41
  • biography 3
  • Blair, A. 139
  • Blaug, R. 102
  • Boden, R. 51
  • Bowman, K. 152
  • Bray, Z. 92
  • British Crime Survey 95, 97
  • British Election Study 14, 78, 83, 114, 131, 134, 141, 142, 150, 156
  • Broughton, D. 140
  • Brown, C. and Ainley, K. 99
  • Brown, M. 30
  • Brunskell, H. 44
  • Bryman, A. 31, 66
  • Bulmer, M. 49
  • Burnham, P. et al. 15, 18, 32, 35, 47, 48, 49, 59, 66-68, 71, 77, 79, 132, 141, 143
  • Burr, J. and Reynolds, 50
  • Butler, J. 83
  • Butler, D. and Stokes, D. 8
  • Calnan, M. and Ferlie, E. 154
  • Caprioli, M. 86
  • Carr, E.H. 89-90, 125
  • case study 1, 9,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. About the Authors
  8. Introduction
  9. Action Research
  10. Autobiographical/Biographical Research
  11. Behaviouralism
  12. Case Studies
  13. Causality and Correlations
  14. Comparative Method
  15. Concepts
  16. Content Analysis
  17. Deduction/Induction
  18. Discourse Analysis
  19. Documentary Analysis
  20. Ecological Fallacy
  21. Empirical Analysis
  22. Epistemology
  23. Ethics
  24. Ethnography and Ethnomethodology
  25. Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPM)
  26. Feminism/Feminist Methodologies
  27. Focus Groups
  28. Hypothesis Testing and Inference
  29. Interviewing
  30. Levels of Measurement
  31. Methods
  32. Methodology
  33. Narratives
  34. Observation
  35. Official Data
  36. Ontology
  37. Paradigm
  38. Positivism
  39. Post-positivism
  40. Presenting Quantitative Analysis
  41. Primary Sources
  42. Qualitative Methods
  43. Quantitative Methods
  44. Rational Choice
  45. Realism
  46. Reliability
  47. Sampling
  48. Secondary Analysis
  49. Survey Design
  50. Theory
  51. Triangulation
  52. Validity
  53. Variables
  54. Index