00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862137517 Buklod 20240219161155.0 g||| | || || ta 181120s2017 ilua rb |||1 u|eng d 9780226327549 (pbk. : alk. paper) 022632754X (pbk. : alk. paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00032148138 BC-69948 Linar Educational Materials, Inc. Php1,995.00 DEPS Faculty DLC BAG rda eng JA 71 H69 2017 Howard, Christopher 1961- author. Thinking like a political scientist a practical guide to research methods Christopher Howard. Chicago, IL The University of Chicago Press 2017. xi, 227 pages illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-224) and index. Part I. Asking good questions -- 1. Who cares? -- 2. What happened? -- 3. Why? -- Part II. Generating good answers -- 4. Choosing a research design -- 5. Choosing cases -- 6. Using documents as evidence -- 7. Using numbers as evidence. Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts and questions. Instead, they brim with dry technical definitions and focus heavily on statistical analysis, slighting other valuable methods. This approach not only dulls potential enjoyment of the course, but prevents students from mastering the skills they need to engage more directly and meaningfully with a wide variety of research. With wit and practical wisdom, Christopher Howard draws on more than a decade of experience teaching research methods to transform a typically dreary subject and teach budding political scientists the critical skills they need to read published research more effectively and produce better research of their own. The first part of the book is devoted to asking three fundamental questions in political science: What happened? Why? Who cares? In the second section, Howard demonstrates how to answer these questions by choosing an appropriate research design, selecting cases, and working with numbers and written documents as evidence. Drawing on examples from American and comparative politics, international relations, and public policy, Thinking Like a Political Scientist highlights the most common challenges that political scientists routinely face, and each chapter concludes with exercises so that students can practice dealing with those challenges.--Provided by Publisher. Political science Methodology. Political science Research. Research Methodology. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN JA 71 H69 2017 Book