Research methods: general

Asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for trade-offs between conflicting goals and demonstrates that such explanations can always be found.

Asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for trade-offs between conflicting goals and demonstrates that such explanations can always be found.

In a society that is still experiencing the crisis generated by the pandemic due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, aggravated also by the conflict in Ukraine, it is necessary to rethink the concept of culture, which must be declined in its factual reality of everyday life, since the cultural system and its elements not only produce relationships (meaningful interactions) but also individual and collective social action, hence the use of the term rela(c)tion in the title.

A novel approach to cause that builds on human reasons for acting and the consequences of behaviour by multiple actors.

This 2006 book addresses the comprehensive introduction to the mathematical principles needed by modern social scientists.

This textbook provides students with the skills and techniques necessary to analyse business case studies from a strategic perspective.

This book explores how the tools of public management and policy evaluation can generate the data to improve elections.

This book explores how the tools of public management and policy evaluation can generate the data to improve elections.

A novel approach to cause that builds on human reasons for acting and the consequences of behaviour by multiple actors.

This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry policy makers involved in selling, buying and regulation.

This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry policy makers involved in selling, buying and regulation.

The first comprehensive guide to natural experiments, providing an ideal introduction for scholars and students.

A ''user''s guide'' to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and the methodological family of set-theoretic methods in social science.

Takes the human-computer interaction researcher through the complete experimental process, from identifying a research question, to conducting an experiment and analysing the results.

The first comprehensive guide to natural experiments, providing an ideal introduction for scholars and students.

A ''user''s guide'' to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and the methodological family of set-theoretic methods in social science.

Takes the human-computer interaction researcher through the complete experimental process, from identifying a research question, to conducting an experiment and analysing the results.

Presents the rational choice theories of collective action and social choice, applying them to problems of public policy and social justice.

Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not.

Presents the rational choice theories of collective action and social choice, applying them to problems of public policy and social justice.

Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not.

This book presents the technical aspects of an economic model used to examine issues of global economic significance.

This book presents the technical aspects of an economic model used to examine issues of global economic significance.

Examines how people''s investment or stake in their communities affects the provision of public services.

Examines how people''s investment or stake in their communities affects the provision of public services.

This book presents the mathematical economic theory of price determination and resource allocation from elementary to advanced levels.

The essential features of the counterfactual model of causality for observational data analysis are presented with examples.

This book provides an analytic basis for making pricing decisions.

A step-by-step guide to the design and implementation of surveys.

A step-by-step guide to the design and implementation of surveys.

A new and thoroughly revised edition of this exceptional textbook, offering a one-volume introduction to social science methodology.

A new and thoroughly revised edition of this exceptional textbook, offering a one-volume introduction to social science methodology.

A balanced, rigorous and comprehensive exploration of the economics of climate change.

A balanced, rigorous and comprehensive exploration of the economics of climate change.

This book presents the mathematical economic theory of price determination and resource allocation from elementary to advanced levels.

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

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

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of how political scientists have used experiments to transform their field of study.

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of how political scientists have used experiments to transform their field of study.

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

This book asks whether military power is central in determining which states get their voice heard, and if so, how and why.

This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women's political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women's right to vote and women's right to run for political office.

This book investigates women's ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity.

This book presents an analysis of masculinity construction in a large corpus of women's magazines, adopting a feminist Critical Stylistic approach to reveal how men are talked about and 'sold' to women as part of a successful performance of hegemonic femininity.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.

This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American.

This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries.

This compact reference guide gives students the skills and confidence to succeed in case study assignments.

This is an invaluable guide to developing the writing skills needed to succeed at every stage of postgraduate research.

This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the use of internet technology in research.