1st Edition
How to Research Researchers Methods for Studying Political Scientists Worldwide
Table of Contents
Introduction / Studying Political Scientists: Opening Conversations on Methods by Paulo Ravecca and Mehtap Söyler
- Defining, Sampling, and Surveying Political Scientists: Insights from European Experiences by Giulia Vicentini and José Real-Dato
- The Power of Fields in Political Science: Discoveries Using University Records by Emily Hauptmann
- How the Discipline Speaks: A Reflexive Approach to Interviewing Political Scientists by Marcela Schenck
- Exploring the Diffusion of Computational Social Science (CSS) Methods in Political Science Using Network Analysis by Başak Taraktaş
- Gender, Power and the Untapped Potential of Ethnography for Researching Political Scientists by Cherry M. Miller
- Storytelling as a Method for Researching Unheard Voices Within Political Science by Jan Robert R. Go
- Researching the Disciplinary Self: Autoethnography and Critical Theory for the Study of Political Scientists by Paulo Ravecca
- Set-Theoretic Methods for the Study of Political Scientists by Mehtap Söyler
- Mixed-Methods and Multimethod Research in Disciplinary Studies of Political Science by Cecilia Rocha-Carpiuc
Conclusion / Methods, power, and the making of Political Science by Mehtap Söyler and Paulo Ravecca
Biography
Mehtap Söyler is Associate Professor at İzmir Katip Çelebi University and an associate member of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). She also serves on the board of the IPSA Research Committee 01 (Concepts and Methods). Her book, The Turkish Deep State, focuses on case study methods and theory generation. Her research interests include social science methodology, political science as a discipline, peace studies, and political regimes and institutions.
Paulo Ravecca is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University and former Chair of IPSA’s Research Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a Discipline). He is the author of The Politics of Political Science: Rewriting Latin American Experiences (Routledge, 2019).
