Rövid leírás:
The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from major international scholars The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology provides the key point of reference for anyone working throughout the discipline.
Hosszú leírás:
Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged in ongoing research and training programs that have advanced quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology presents and synthesizes these developments.
The Handbook provides comprehensive overviews of diverse methodological approaches, with an emphasis on three major themes. First, specific methodological tools should be at the service of improved conceptualization, comprehension of meaning, measurement, and data collection. They should increase analysts’ leverage in reasoning about causal relationships and evaluating them empirically by contributing to powerful research designs. Second, the authors explore the many different ways of addressing these tasks: through case-studies and large-n designs, with both quantitative and qualitative data, and via techniques ranging from statistical modelling to process tracing. Finally, techniques can cut across traditional methodological boundaries and can be useful for many different kinds of researchers. Many of the authors thus explore how their methods can inform, and be used by, scholars engaged in diverse branches of methodology.
Review from previous edition This Handbook contains an extraordinary collection of magisterial articles by many of the best methodological minds in political science. Prominent statisticians, econometricians, and sociologists who have taken an interest in our inferential problems are also well represented. The range is broad and substantive, with quantitative, qualitative, formal-theoretic, historical, and mixed methods discussed in relation to all the empirical subfields of the discipline. Every sect will find something to its taste, and those who celebrate the methodological diversity of the profession will have a feast. The articles are written to be accessible, and graduate students will find no better place to begin developing their own methodological judgment. This book is a splendid achievement.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Part I: Introduction
Political Science Methodology
Normative Methodology
Part II: Approaches to Social Science Methodology
Meta-methodology: Clearing the Underbrush
Agent-based Modeling
Part III: Concepts and Measurement
Concepts, Theories, and Numbers: A Checklist for Constructing, Evaluating, and Using Concepts or Quantitative Measures
Measurement
Typologies: Forming Concepts and Creating Catagorical Variables
Measurement versus Calibration: A Set-theoretic Approach
The Evolving Influence of Psychometrics in Political Science
Part IV: Causality and Explanation in Social Research
Causation and Explanation in Social Science
The Neyman-Rubin Model of Causal Inference and Estimation via Matching Methods
On Types of Scientific Enquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning
Studying Mechanisms to Strengthen Causal Inferences in Quantitative Research
Part V: Experiments, Quasi-experiments and Natural Experiments
Experimentation in Political Science
Field Experiments and Natural Experiments
Part VI: Quantitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference: General Methods
Survey Methodology
Endogeneity and Structural Equation Estimation in Political Science
Structural Equation Models
Time-series Analysis
Time-series Cross-section Methods
Bayesian Analysis
Part VII: Quantitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference: Special Topics
Discrete Choice Methods
Survival Analysis
Cross-level/Ecological Inference
Empirical Models of Spatial Interdependence
Multilevel Models
Part VIII: Qualitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference
Counterfactuals and Case Studies
Case Selection for Case-study Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Techniques
Interviewing and Qualitative Field Methods: Pragmatism and Practicalities
Process Tracing: A Bayesian Perspective
Case-oriented Configurational Research: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), Fuzzy Sets, and Related Techniques
Comparative-historical Analysis in Contemporary Political Science
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Part IX: Organizations, Institutions, and Movements in the Field of Methodology
Qualitative and Multimethod Research: Organizations, Publication, and Reflections on Integration
Quantitative Methodology
Forty Years of Publishing in Quantitative Methodology
The EITM Approach: Origins and Interpretations
Index
