Bruter, Michael
Political Science Research Methods in Action
1. Introduction: Writer’s Block
Michael Bruter, Martin Lodge
Part I. Approaching and Measuring Social Science Objects
2. Measuring the Immeasurable?
Michael Bruter
3. Decoding Manifestos and Other Political Texts: The Case of Extreme-Right Ideology
Sarah Harrison
4. Reaction Time Measures in Implicit Attitudes Research
Brad Verhulst, Milton Lodge
5. Studying Party Choice
Mark N. Franklin, Maja Renko
6. Into the Archives
Ben Wellings
Part II. Making Sense of Data
7. Euro-Visions: An Analysis of Visual Imagery in TV News
Jessica Bain, Natalia Chaban
8. When Access Is Restricted: Craftiness and Combining Methods in the Study of a Secretive Elite
Julie Gervais
9. Semistructured Interviews and Informal Institutions: Getting Inside Executive Government
Martin Lodge
10. Error-Correction as a Concept and as a Method: Time Series Analysis of Policy-Opinion Responsiveness
Will Jennings
11. Working Backwards? Using Simulation to Sort Out Empirical Inconsistencies
Robert Erikson, Aaron Strauss, Michael Bruter
12. Conclusion
Michael Bruter, Martin Lodge
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Science, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law
- Editor
- Bruter, Michael
- Lodge, Martin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Research Methods Series
- Page amount
- 271 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137318268
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-34973-9