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The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology

Edited by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady, and David Collier

Price: £85.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928654-6
Publication date: 21 August 2008
896 pages, 246x171 mm
Series: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
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'"This Handbook contains an extraordinary collection of magisterial articles by many of the best methodological minds in political science. Prominent statisticians, econometricians, and sociologists who have taken an interest in our inferential problems are also well represented. The range is broad and substantive, with quantitative, qualitative, formal-theoretic, historical, and mixed methods discussed in relation to all the empirical subfields of the discipline. Every sect will find something to its taste, and those who celebrate the methodological diversity of the profession will have a feast. The articles are written to be accessible, and graduate students will find no better place to begin developing their own methodological judgment. This book is a splendid achievement." Christopher H. Achen, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Princeton University' -

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The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today
The only fully comprehensive ten-volume survey of the whole discipline
Not just a review of the discipline, but a major contribution to it
Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors

Political methodology has changed dramatically in the past thirty years. Not only have new methods and techniques been developed, but the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged in ongoing research and training programs that have advanced both quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology is designed to reflect these developments.It provides comprehensive overviews and critiques of all the key specific methodologies.

The volume emphasises three things. Firstly, techniques should be the servants of improved data collection, measurement, conceptualization, and the understanding of meanings and the identification of causal relationship in social science research. Techniques will be described with the aim of showing how they contribute to these tasks, and the emphasis will be upon developing good research designs-not upon simply using sophisticated techniques.

Second, there are many different ways that these tasks can be undertaken in the social sciences through description and modeling, case-study and large-n designs, and quantitative and qualitative research.

Third, techniques can cut across boundaries and be useful for many different kinds of researchers. The chapter authors ask how their methods can be used by, or at least inform, the work of those outside those areas where they are usually employed. For example, those describing large-n statistical techniques should ask how their methods might at least inform, if not sometimes be adopted by, those doing case studies or interpretive work, and we want those explaining how to do comparative historical work or process tracing to explain how it could inform those doing time-series studies.

Readership: Scholars and students of political science especially those interested in political methodology, comparative politics, political behavior and political economy.

Contents

Part I: Introduction

1. Political Science Methodology , Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Henry Brady, David Collier

2. Normative Methodology , Russell Hardin

Part II: Approaches to Social Science Methodology

3. Meta-methodology: Clearing the Underbrush , Mark Bevir

4. Agent-based Modeling , Scott de Marchi and Scott E. Page

Part III: Concepts and Measurement

5. Concepts, Theories, and Numbers: A Checklist for Constructing, Evaluating, and Using Concepts or Quantitative Measures , Gary Goertz

6. Measurement , Simon Jackman

7. Typologies: Forming Concepts and Creating Catagorical Variables , David Collier, Jody LaPorte, and Jason Seawright

8. Measurement versus Calibration: A Set-theoretic Approach , Charles C. Ragin

9. The Evolving Influence of Psychometrics in Political Science , Keith T. Poole

Part IV: Causality and Explanation in Social Research

10. Causation and Explanation in Social Science , Henry E. Brady

11. The Neyman-Rubin Model of Causal Inference and Estimation via Matching Methods , Jasjeet S.Sekhon

12. On Types of Scientific Enquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning , David A. Freedman

13. Studying Mechanisms to Strengthen Causal Inferences in Quantitative Research , Peter Hedstrom

Part V: Experiments, Quasi-experiments and Natural Experiments

14. Experimentation in Political Science , Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams

15. Field Experiments and Natural Experiments , Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green

Part VI: Quantitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference: General Methods

16. Survey Methodology , Richard Johnston

17. Endogeneity and Structural Equation Estimation in Political Science , John E. Jackson

18. Structural Equation Models , Kenneth A. Bollen, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, and Anders Skrondal

19. Time-series Analysis , Jon C. Pevehouse and Jason D. Brozek

20. Time-series Cross-section Methods , Nathaniel Beck

21. Bayesian Analysis , Andrew D. Martin

Part VII: Quantitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference: Special Topics

22. Discrete Choice Methods , Garrett Glasgow and R. Michael Alvarez

23. Survival Analysis , Jonathan Golub

24. Cross-level/Ecological Inference , Wendy K. Tam Cho and Charles F. Manski

25. Empirical Models of Spatial Interdependence , Robert J. Franzese Jr, and Jude C. Hays

26. Multilevel Models , Bradford S. Jones

Part VIII: Qualitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference

27. Counterfactuals and Case Studies , Jack S. Levy

28. Case Selection for Case-study Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Techniques , John Gerring

29. Interviewing and Qualitative Field Methods: Pragmatism and Practicalities , Brian C. Rathbun

30. Process Tracing: A Bayesian Perspective , Andrew Bennett

31. Case-oriented Configurational Research: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), Fuzzy Sets, and Related Techniques , Benoit Rihoux

32. Comparative-historical Analysis in Contemporary Political Science , James Mahoney and P. Larkin Terrie

33. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods , James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin

Part IX: Organizations, Institutions, and Movements in the Field of Methodology

34. Qualitative and Multimethod Research: Organizations, Publication, and Reflections on Integration , David Collier and Colin Elman

35. Quantitative Methodology , Charles H. Franklin

36. Forty Years of Publishing in Quantitative Methodology , Michael S. Lewis-Beck

37. The EITM Approach: Origins and Interpretations , John H. Aldrich, James E. Alt, and Arthur Lupia

Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science & Director of the Program in Statistics and Methodology, Ohio State University,
Henry E. Brady, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, UC Berkeley, and
David Collier, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Contributors:Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University
Henry Brady, UC Berkeley
David Collier, UC Berkeley
John Gerring, Boston University
James Johnson, University of Rochestser
Gary Goertz, University of Arizona
Keith T. Poole, UC San Diego
Simon Jackman, Stanford University
David Freeman, UC Berkeley
Jasjeet Sekhon, UC Berkeley
John E. Jackson, University of Michigan
Andrew D. Martin, Washington University in St Louis
Nathaniel Beck, New York University
Robert Franzese, University of Michigan
Jude Hayes, University of Illinois, Urbana
Bradford Stephen Jones, University of Arizona
Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Wendy K. Cho, Northwestern University, Urbana
Charles Manski, Northwestern University, Evanston
Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia
Jonathan Golub, University of Reading
Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin
Bernhard Kittel, University of Amsterdam
Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University
James Mahoney, Brown University
Charles Ragin, University of Arizona
Brian Rathburn, McGill University
Kenneth Bollen, University of North Carolina
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, UC Berkeley
John Aldrich, Duke University
James E. Alt, Harvard University
Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan
Peter Hedstrom, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Scott E. Page, University of Michigan
Becky Morton, New York University
Kenneth Williams, Michigan State University
Donald Green, Yale University
Alan Gerber, Yale University
Colin Elman, Arizona State University
Charles Franklin, University of Wisconsin
Michael Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa
David Laitin, Stanford University
Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame

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