10th Edition
Empirical Political Analysis Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
Chapter 1. Research as a Process
Chapter 2. Building Theories and Hypotheses
Chapter 3. Developing Your Literature Review
Chapter 4. Designing Your Research and Choosing Your Methods
Chapter 5. From Abstract to Concrete: Operationalization and Measurement
Chapter 6. Creating Complex Indicators: Using Scaling Techniques
Chapter 7. Research Design: Attributing Causation Through Control
Chapter 8. Who, What, Where, When: The Problem of Sampling
Chapter 9. Survey Research: Characterizing a Broader Population
Chapter 10. Experimental Methods
Chapter 11. Content and Quantitative Text Analysis
Chapter 12. Comparative Methods: Research Across Populations
Chapter 13. Data: Studying Individuals and Groups
Chapter 14. Open Science and Data Wrangling: Preparing Observations for Analysis
Chapter 15. Describing and Visualizing One Variable: Univariate Distributions and Statistics
Chapter 16. Evaluating and visualizing relationships between two variables: Bivariate analysis
Chapter 17. Causal Inference with Multivariate Observational Data: Relationships Among Several Variables
Chapter 18. Direct Observation: Systematically Watching Behavior
Chapter 19. Focus Group Research
Chapter 20. Elite and Specialized Interviewing
Chapter 21. The Research Report: Diagramming a Sample Article
Chapter 22. Summary: Overview of a Research Process
Biography
Richard C. Rich, PhD, studies and teaches about environmental policy, public policy analysis, and research methods. He was Editor of the State University of New York Press Urban Public Policy book series that won the Aaron Wildavsky Award for Contributions to Policy Analysis. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Political Science, Director of the Center for Environmental and Energy Studies, and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech.
Samuel Brazys, PhD, studies and teaches at the intersection of international political economy and the political economy of international development. He is Editor of the Journal of International Development. He is currently the Vice-Principal for Research, Innovation, and Impact in the College of Social Sciences and Law at University College Dublin.
