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Rethinking social inquiry : diverse tools, shared standards / edited by Henry E. Brady and David Collier.

Other author/creatorBrady, Henry E.
Other author/creatorCollier, David, 1942-
Format Book and Print
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010.
Descriptionxviii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction to the second edition: a sea change in political methodology / David Collier, Henry E. Brady, and Jason Seawright -- Refocusing the discussion of methodology / Henry E. Brady, David Collier, and Jason Seawright -- The quest for standards: King, Keohane, and Verba's Designing social inquiry / David Collier, Jason Seawright, and Gerardo L. Munck -- Doing good and doing better: how far does the quantitative template get us? / Henry E. Brady -- Some unfulfilled promises of quantitative imperialism / Larry M. Bartels -- How interference in the social (but not the physical) sciences neglects theoretical anomaly / Ronald Rogowski -- Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide / Sidney Tarrow -- The importance of research design / Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba -- Critiques, responses, and trade-offs: drawing together the debate / David Collier, Henry E. Brady, and Jason Seawright -- Sources of leverage in casual interference: toward an alternative view of methodology / David Collier, Henry E. Brady, and Jason Seawright -- Process tracing and casual inference / Andrew Bennett -- On types of scientific inquiry: the role of qualitative reasoning / David A. Freedman -- Data-set observations versus causal-process observations: the 2000 U.S. presidential election / Henry E. Brady -- Addendum: teaching process tracing / David Collier -- Regression-based inference: a case study in failed causal assessment / Jason Seawright -- Design-based inference: beyond the pitfalls of regression analysis? / Thad Dunning -- Glossary / Jason Seawright and David Collier.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 361-385) and indexes.
LCCN 2010022477
ISBN9781442203433 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1442203439 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781442203440 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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