Research methods: general

This seamless introduction to statistics and research methods identifies various research areas and analyzes how one approaches them statistically.

This seamless introduction to statistics and research methods identifies various research areas and analyzes how one approaches them statistically.

Examines a set of voter information campaigns worldwide to assess their effectiveness, and develops a new social science research model aimed at cumulative learning.

Examines a set of voter information campaigns worldwide to assess their effectiveness, and develops a new social science research model aimed at cumulative learning.

Provides guidance for Bayesian updating in case study, process-tracing, and comparative research, in order to refine intuition and improve inferences from qualitative evidence.

Proposes novel methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling without complex mathematics.

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

Proposes novel methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling without complex mathematics.

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to data collection, cleaning, formatting, and storage, using Python and R.

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to data collection, cleaning, formatting, and storage, using Python and R.

Political interest is the strongest predictor of ''good citizenship'', yet little is known about it.

This volume is the first comprehensive empirical examination of the premises and effects of sex offender registration and notification laws.

An innovative, big data approach to tracking the impact and benefits of publicly funded research, focusing on food safety.

Political interest is the strongest predictor of ''good citizenship'', yet little is known about it.

This volume is the first comprehensive empirical examination of the premises and effects of sex offender registration and notification laws.

Using over fifty real-life cases and Kahneman''s intuitive judgement theory, this book introduces the science of journal article publication.

This updated edition is an examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, exploring its roots to analyze its current state.

Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.

This book uses social network analysis to explore the various effects that social networks have on religious belief and practice.

This updated edition is an examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, exploring its roots to analyze its current state.

Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.

This book uses social network analysis to explore the various effects that social networks have on religious belief and practice.

This highly accessible book presents robustness testing as the methodology for conducting quantitative analyses in the presence of model uncertainty.

A broad and inclusive guide that makes eye-tracking understandable, accessible and achievable for language researchers.

This highly accessible book presents robustness testing as the methodology for conducting quantitative analyses in the presence of model uncertainty.

A broad and inclusive guide that makes eye-tracking understandable, accessible and achievable for language researchers.

An updated, centralised volume for health-centred researchers, reflecting modern research from changing grant awarding expectations to software.

An updated, centralised volume for health-centred researchers, reflecting modern research from changing grant awarding expectations to software.

An overview of experimental research and methods in public management, and their impact on theory, research practices and substantive knowledge.

An overview of experimental research and methods in public management, and their impact on theory, research practices and substantive knowledge.

An innovative textbook introducing a variety of social science methodologies applicable to a range of social and political science disciplines.

This forward-thinking handbook integrates philosophy of science, study design, and contemporary quantitative methods in clinical psychology.

In highlighting the unique features of focus groups, Cyr explains how they can help social science researchers effectively answer certain research questions.

This forward-thinking handbook integrates philosophy of science, study design, and contemporary quantitative methods in clinical psychology.

In highlighting the unique features of focus groups, Cyr explains how they can help social science researchers effectively answer certain research questions.

Sheds new light on the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations through a series of novel field experiments.

This exploration of empirical inference presents descriptions of the processes by which scientific measurements support explanations of our world.

Sheds new light on the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations through a series of novel field experiments.

This exploration of empirical inference presents descriptions of the processes by which scientific measurements support explanations of our world.

This book provides an analytic basis for making pricing decisions.

This book provides an account of the underlying mathematics of mechanism design based on linear programming.

This book proposes a theory of social welfare that encapsulates fairness principles in the definition of social preferences.

This book analyzes the links between political economics, governance structures and the distribution of political power in economic policy making.

This is the first book to cover the range of research methods currently employed across the field of linguistics.

This is the first book to cover the range of research methods currently employed across the field of linguistics.

Data-driven rankings of thousands of history''s most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.

Data-driven rankings of thousands of history''s most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.

A textbook for masters and doctoral students introducing the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences.

Aims to provide a general understanding of the case study method.