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Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, New Edition

Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, New Edition

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0691224633
ISBN13: 9780691224633
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The classic work on qualitative methods in political science

Designing Social Inquiry presents a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science, showing how the same logic of inference underlies both. This stimulating book discusses issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and the uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and getting the most out of qualitative research. It addresses topics such as interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. The book only uses mathematical notation to clarify concepts, and assumes no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics.

Featuring a new preface by Robert O. Keohane and Gary King, this edition makes an influential work available to new generations of qualitative researchers in the social sciences.

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