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050	0	0	_aJA86 _b.P475 2013
082	0	4	_a320.0721 _223 _bPET.S
100	1		_aPeters, B. Guy, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aStrategies for comparative research in political science / _cB. Guy Peters.
264		1	_aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2013.
264		4	_c©2013
300			_axi, 284 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aPolitical analysis
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-279) and index.
505	0		_aMachine generated contents note: 1.The Importance of Comparison -- Forms of comparative analysis -- Types of comparative studies -- The content of comparisons -- Cross-time comparisons -- Conclusion -- 2.The Logic of Comparison -- Comparative research design -- Research design and case selection -- Levels of analysis -- Threats to validity in non-experimental research -- Conclusion -- 3.The Number of Cases and Which Ones? -- Strategies with different numbers of cases -- Small-N research in general -- Conclusion -- 4.Measurement and Bias -- The traveling problem -- Typologies -- Triangulation -- Nominal categories -- Ideal-type analysis and measurement -- Conclusion -- 5.The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics -- Levels of explanation -- Macro-level theories -- Meso-level theories -- Micro-level theories -- State and society -- Conclusion -- 6.The Case Study -- Improving case research -- Case studies -- Conducting case research -- Defining cases --
505	0		_aContents note continued: The purposes of case research -- The case as process -- Issues in case study research -- The role of the case researcher -- Conclusion -- 7.Building on Case Analysis -- Meta-analysis -- Boolean algebra and cumulation -- Conclusion -- 8.Events Data and Change Over Time -- Events data -- The method -- Relationships with other methods -- Potential problems -- Conclusion -- 9.Statistical Analysis -- Statistical modes of explanation in comparative politics -- The question of time -- The problem of context -- Coping with a small N -- Secondary analysis -- Conclusion -- 10.The Future of Comparative Politics -- Territory or function: choices in comparison -- Theory and the restriction of perspective -- Methods and the restriction of vision -- The exceptional and the ordinary: what can we learn from each? -- Modesty, but hope -- The future of comparative politics.
650		0	_aPolitical science _xResearch _xMethodology.
830		0	_aPolitical analysis (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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