RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION

Michael K. Le Roy

ISBN 10: 1133309321 / ISBN 13: 9781133309321

Published by Cengage Learning, Inc,, 2012

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Synopsis:

Use award-winning software to analyze and critically evaluate real data with RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, 8E, International Edition. This workbook includes a Windows version of MicroCase® ExplorIt, a user-friendly program that makes it easy to manipulate and learn from actual data without getting bogged down in complicated statistical software. Over two dozen research-quality data files are included in this package, along with 13 exercise worksheets (one per chapter), that let you see the real impact of the concepts you study. You’re then walked through the entire research process, giving you hands-on experience in research methods.

About the Author: Michael K. Le Roy is a professor of Political Science and Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty at Whitworth University in Washington state. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Vanderbilt University, and he was a Fulbright scholar at Gothenburg University in Sweden. In addition to his extensive research and travel in Europe and Latin America, Professor Le Roy has studied and traveled in Central and South America. His research on civil society and social capital has been published in Comparative Politics. Michael Le Roy returned to Whitworth in fall 2002 from Wheaton College, in Illinois, where he served as chair of the department of political science. After teaching three years for the Political Science department, Le Roy accepted the position as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. Le Roy still teaches for the Political Science department and continues as a team member for the Central America Study-Service Program. His research on civil society, xenophobia, and the European Union has been published in the journal, COMPARATIVE POLITICS. He is also the author of COMPARATIVE POLITICS: AN INTRODUCTION (4th Edition), and RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (7th Edition). Le Roy won Wheaton College's faculty achievement award for excellence in teaching in 1998 and a similar award from the American Political Science Association's honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha, in 1999.

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Title: RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: AN ...
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc,
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New