The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations - Hardcover

Luigi Curini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526459930 ISBN 13: 9781526459930

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of the field and its research processes through the empirical and research scholarship of leading international authors. The book is structured along the lines of applied research in the discipline: from formulating good research questions and designing a good research project, to various modes of theoretical argumentation, through conceptualization, to empirical measurement and analysis. 

Each chapter offers new approaches and builds upon existing methods. Through its seven parts, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics, will be guided through the design, methods and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations discipline:

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions and Designing Good Research Projects

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Part Three: Conceptualization & Measurement

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection & Representation Methods

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Part Six: Qualitative & Mixed Methods

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Part Seven: EITM & EMTI

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About this title

About the Author

Luigi Curini is Professor of Political Science at the University of Milan, Italy, and Visiting Professor at Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on comparative politics, valence politics, text analytics. He is (co-)author of seven books including Corruption, Ideology, and Populism (2018) and Politics and Big Data (2017) and more than fifty articles and chapters.

Robert Franzese is Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science, Director of the Program in International and Comparative Studies, and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan; and a past President of The Society for Political Methodology. He is (co-)author or (co-)editor of seven books or collections, including the forthcoming Empirical Analysis of Spatial Interdependence and more than fifty articles, chapters, and papers including most germanely "Spatial-Econometric Models of Cross-Sectional Interdependence in Political-Science Panel and Time-Series-Cross-Section Data", "A Spatial Model Incorporating Dynamic, Endogenous Network Interdependence: A Political Science Application", and "Interdependence in Comparative Politics: Substance, Theory, Empirics, Substance".

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526459930
• ISBN 13: 9781526459930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1224
• Editor: Luigi Curini, Robert Franzese