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Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science
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Taschenbuch von Stephen Van Evera
Sprache: Englisch

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For the last few years, Stephen Van Evera has greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer has now evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, and history -- and for their advisers.
-- How should we frame, assess, and apply theories in the social sciences? "I am unpersuaded by the view that the prime rules of scientific method should differ between hard science and social science. Science is science".
-- A section on case studies shows novices the ropes.
-- Van Evera contends the realm of dissertations is often defined too narrowly. "Making and testing theories are not the only games in town.... If everyone makes and tests theories but no one ever uses them, then what are they for?"
-- In "Helpful Hints on Writing a Political Science Ph.D. Dissertation", Van Evera focuses on presentation, and on broader issues of academic strategy and tactics.
-- Van Evera asks how political scientists should work together as a community. "All institutions and professions that face weak accountability need inner ethical rudders that define their obligations in order to stay on course".
For the last few years, Stephen Van Evera has greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer has now evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, and history -- and for their advisers.
-- How should we frame, assess, and apply theories in the social sciences? "I am unpersuaded by the view that the prime rules of scientific method should differ between hard science and social science. Science is science".
-- A section on case studies shows novices the ropes.
-- Van Evera contends the realm of dissertations is often defined too narrowly. "Making and testing theories are not the only games in town.... If everyone makes and tests theories but no one ever uses them, then what are they for?"
-- In "Helpful Hints on Writing a Political Science Ph.D. Dissertation", Van Evera focuses on presentation, and on broader issues of academic strategy and tactics.
-- Van Evera asks how political scientists should work together as a community. "All institutions and professions that face weak accountability need inner ethical rudders that define their obligations in order to stay on course".
Über den Autor

Stephen Van Evera is Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Director of the MIT Center for International Studies. He is the author of Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, also from Cornell.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION1. HYPOTHESES, LAWS, AND THEORIES: A USER'S GUIDE

What Is a Theory?

What Is a Specific Explanation?

What Is a Good Theory?

How Can Theories Be Made?

How Can Theories Be Tested?

Strong vs. Weak Tests: Predictions and Tests

Helpful Hints for Testing Theories

How Can Specific Events Be Explained?

Methodology Myths2. WHAT ARE CASE STUDIES? HOW SHOULD THEY BE PERFORMED?

Case Studies in Perspective

Testing Theories with Case Studies

Creating Theories with Case Studies

Inferring Antecedent Conditions from Case Studies

Testing Antecedent Conditions with Case Studies

Explaining Cases

Strong vs. Weak Tests: Predictions and Tests

Interpreting Contradictory Results

Case-Selection Criteria3. WHAT IS A POLITICAL SCIENCE DISSERTATION?4. HELPFUL HINTS ON WRITING A POLITICAL SCIENCE DISSERTATION

Topic Selection

Organization

Your Dissertation Prospectus

Your Introductory Chapter

Your Concluding Chapter

Study Design and Presentation

Writing

Style

Vetting

Your Abstract

Dealing with your Dissertation Committee

Dealing with Your Head, Your Family, and Your Friends

How to Learn More about How to Write a Dissertation5. THE DISSERTATION PROPOSAL6. PROFESSIONAL ETHICSAPPENDIX: HOW TO WRITE A PAPER

FURTHER READING

INDEX

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 144
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780801484575
ISBN-10: 080148457X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Evera, Stephen Van
Hersteller: Cornell University Press
Maße: 209 x 138 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen Van Evera
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.1997
Gewicht: 0,189 kg
preigu-id: 106863529
Über den Autor

Stephen Van Evera is Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Director of the MIT Center for International Studies. He is the author of Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, also from Cornell.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION1. HYPOTHESES, LAWS, AND THEORIES: A USER'S GUIDE

What Is a Theory?

What Is a Specific Explanation?

What Is a Good Theory?

How Can Theories Be Made?

How Can Theories Be Tested?

Strong vs. Weak Tests: Predictions and Tests

Helpful Hints for Testing Theories

How Can Specific Events Be Explained?

Methodology Myths2. WHAT ARE CASE STUDIES? HOW SHOULD THEY BE PERFORMED?

Case Studies in Perspective

Testing Theories with Case Studies

Creating Theories with Case Studies

Inferring Antecedent Conditions from Case Studies

Testing Antecedent Conditions with Case Studies

Explaining Cases

Strong vs. Weak Tests: Predictions and Tests

Interpreting Contradictory Results

Case-Selection Criteria3. WHAT IS A POLITICAL SCIENCE DISSERTATION?4. HELPFUL HINTS ON WRITING A POLITICAL SCIENCE DISSERTATION

Topic Selection

Organization

Your Dissertation Prospectus

Your Introductory Chapter

Your Concluding Chapter

Study Design and Presentation

Writing

Style

Vetting

Your Abstract

Dealing with your Dissertation Committee

Dealing with Your Head, Your Family, and Your Friends

How to Learn More about How to Write a Dissertation5. THE DISSERTATION PROPOSAL6. PROFESSIONAL ETHICSAPPENDIX: HOW TO WRITE A PAPER

FURTHER READING

INDEX

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 144
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780801484575
ISBN-10: 080148457X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Evera, Stephen Van
Hersteller: Cornell University Press
Maße: 209 x 138 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen Van Evera
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.1997
Gewicht: 0,189 kg
preigu-id: 106863529
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