Research methods: general

In the big data age, this Element offers many modern methods and opensource code for learning from high dimensional data.

Theories and methods for analyzing multimodal relations connecting political entities, including voters, politicians, parties, events, and nations.

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design.

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design.

In this study of pioneers of the field, Goldthorpe explains how present-day sociological science developed from the seventeenth century onwards.

How do campaign promises affect voter behavior?

This book teaches academics how to successfully present their work as well as themselves, and make a lasting impression.

How do campaign promises affect voter behavior?

Academically thorough and up-to-date quantitative and qualitative market research methods text for business and social science students.

Innovative study examining how relationships and personal networks evolve throughout life, and how these connect individuals and society.

Innovative study examining how relationships and personal networks evolve throughout life, and how these connect individuals and society.

Academically thorough and up-to-date quantitative and qualitative market research methods text for business and social science students.

A practical guide to text analysis with Python: the intuition, the math, the code.

Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks.

Bayesian analyses go beyond frequentist techniques of p-values and null hypothesis tests, providing a modern understanding of data analysis.

Offers researchers and teachers an introduction to clustering, with R code and real data to facilitate interaction with the concepts.

Techniques for interpreting commonly used discrete choice models, illustrated with extensive examples including replication code and data.

Techniques for interpreting commonly used discrete choice models, illustrated with extensive examples including replication code and data.

Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks.

Offers an entirely new way of thinking about how psychology works and how it constructs knowledge, using a process-based approach.

Offers an entirely new way of thinking about how psychology works and how it constructs knowledge, using a process-based approach.

This Element explains the statistical foundations of computerized adaptive inventories and how to use the tools provided to implement them.

This Element explains the statistical foundations of computerized adaptive inventories and how to use the tools provided to implement them.

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

This textbook integrates the teaching and learning of statistical concepts with the acquisition of the Stata (version 16) software package.

The solution to youth voter turnout requires focus on helping young people follow through on their political interests and intentions.

This textbook integrates the teaching and learning of statistical concepts with the acquisition of the Stata (version 16) software package.

A cultural history of the concepts of reason and cause, showing that they are culturally and historically local.

A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, with suggested solutions.

This accessible course on a central player in modern statistical practice connects models with methodology, without need for advanced math.

This concise course in data analysis and inference for the mathematically literate builds on survey sampling and designed experiments.

Shows how comparative ethnographic methods can be successfully used to study important human concerns in anthropology.

Novel collection of essays addressing contemporary trends in political science, covering a broad array of methodological and substantive topics.

A cultural history of the concepts of reason and cause, showing that they are culturally and historically local.

Providing clear, practical explanations of research methods in business studies, this guide is indispensable for students writing reports.

Providing clear, practical explanations of research methods in business studies, this guide is indispensable for students writing reports.

A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, with suggested solutions.

The solution to youth voter turnout requires focus on helping young people follow through on their political interests and intentions.

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

Teaches creative, effective visualization techniques for tables, time series, maps, text, and networks for beginners in R and Python.

Novel collection of essays addressing contemporary trends in political science, covering a broad array of methodological and substantive topics.

Explores the critical role time plays in our understanding of causality, across psychology, biology, physics and the social sciences.

A methodological toolkit for social scientists to create their own infrastructure for collecting and analyzing social media big data.

Offers a groundbreaking analysis of the distinctive substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions of subnational research in the field of comparative politics.

A methodological toolkit for social scientists to create their own infrastructure for collecting and analyzing social media big data.

Offers a groundbreaking analysis of the distinctive substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions of subnational research in the field of comparative politics.

Explores the critical role time plays in our understanding of causality, across psychology, biology, physics and the social sciences.

Cross-cultural studies require sound methodology and psychometrics.

The third edition of this classic, best-selling textbook presents an authoritative introduction to the scientific study of politics.

Proposes that the barrier to creating valid measures of subjective wellbeing is a pervasive response bias that differs between cultures.