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008			090217s2008 enk 000 0 eng
020			_a978-1137609427
040			_aRCL
082	0	4	_a320.072 B96R
100			_aBurnham, Peter _930057
245	0	0	_aResearch Methods in Politics _c/Peter Burnham ... [et al.]
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aBasingstoke: _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2008.
300			_axii, 370 p. ; 23cm.
500			_aPrevious ed.: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004.
505			_aIntroduction: methods, methodology and making sense of the study of politics -- The discipline of politics -- Research design -- Comparative methodology -- Surveys and opinion polls -- Descriptive statistics -- Making inferences -- Documentary and archival analysis -- The Internet and political research -- Elite interviewing -- Participant observation and the analysis of communications -- Ethics and political research -- Conclusion: challenging the mainstream and the qualitative/quantitative divide
520			_aThe second edition of this widely used text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics and assessment of their strengths and limitations; of their interrelationship; and of ethical issues in research. Illustrated throughout with boxed examples of real political research, the book ranges widely from substantial coverage of statistical methods to the use of archives, interviews, discourse analysis and the internet. Two additional chapters in the second edition focus on the relationship between research and policy and the lessons for researchers from the study of elections in the US and UK.
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aPolitical science
700	1		_aLutz, Karin Gilland _930058
700	1		_aGrant, Wyn _930059
700	1		_aLayton-Henry, Zig _930060
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0906/2009293415.html
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