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Summary
This innovative research design text will help you make informed choices when carrying out your research project. Covering both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and with examples drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, the authors explain what is at stake when choosing a research design, and discuss the trade-offs that researchers have to make when considering issues such as:
- causality
- categories and classification
- heterogeneity
- interdependence
- time
This book will appeal to students and researchers looking for an in-depth understanding of research design issues to help them design their projects in a thoughtful and responsible way.
Summary
This innovative research design text will help you make informed choices when carrying out your research project. Covering both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and with examples drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, the authors explain what is at stake when choosing a research design, and discuss the trade-offs that researchers have to make when considering issues such as:
- causality
- categories and classification
- heterogeneity
- interdependence
- time
This book will appeal to students and researchers looking for an in-depth understanding of research design issues to help them design their projects in a thoughtful and responsible way.
Author Notes
Martino Maggetti is a lecturer at the University of Zurich and senior researcher at the University of Lausanne.
Fabrizio Gilardi is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich.
Claudio M. Radaelli is Professor of Political Science at the University of Exeter, where he directs the Centre for European Governance.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: What Is at Stake in Research Design? | |
| Establishing Causality in the Social Sciences | |
| Dealing with Concepts, Typologies and Conditions: Observation and Measurement | |
| Connecting Levels of Analysis | |
| Modeling Interaction | |
| Addressing Temporality and Change | |
| Variation and Causation: Exploring Heterogeneity | |
| Conclusions | |
| About the authors | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| 1 Social sciences and research design | p. 1 |
| 2 Conceptual analysis | p. 21 |
| 3 Causal analysis | p. 42 |
| 4 Statistical research designs for causal inference | p. 69 |
| 5 Temporality | p. 93 |
| 6 Heterogeneity | p. 115 |
| 7 Interdependence | p. 138 |
| 8 Conclusions: Connecting the dots | p. 161 |
| References | p. 167 |
| Index | p. 179 |
