Research methods: general

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.

This volume demonstrates how to conduct case study research that is both methodologically rigourous and useful to development policy.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

This book addresses common questions from HCI researchers when trying to do statistical analysis on their data.

Presents an analysis and visualization of social networks integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek).

An accessible treatment of important formal models of domestic politics, fully updated and now including a chapter on nondemocracy.

A student guide to neuroscience research including how to select a topic, analyze data, and present research.

Teaches students how to use R to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Inquires into the role of the unexpected in world politics by examining the protean power effects of agile innovation and improvisation.

Inquires into the role of the unexpected in world politics by examining the protean power effects of agile innovation and improvisation.

Presents the first ethnographic study of al-Muhajiroun, an outlawed activist network that survived British counter-terrorism efforts and sent fighters to the Islamic State.

A call to arms for researchers to embrace their comparative intuition and combine in-depth stories with general lessons from their research.

Analyzes scale effects across a range of political dimensions, encompassing different political levels using a multi-method approach.

Analyzes scale effects across a range of political dimensions, encompassing different political levels using a multi-method approach.

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

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

An in-depth, comprehensive and practical guide to egocentric network analysis, focusing on fundamental theoretical, research design, and analytic issues.

An essential introduction to developing research skills and conducting practitioner research in the field of education.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.