Political research -- Forms of knowledge : laws, explanation, and interpretation in the study of the social world -- Objectivity and values -- Asking questions : how to find and formulate research questions -- Finding answers : theories and how to apply them -- Research design -- What is data? -- Experimental research -- Comparative research -- Historical research -- Surveys -- Interviewing and focus groups -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Textual analysis -- Quantitative analysis : description and inference -- Patterns of association : bivariate analysis -- A guide to multivariate analysis.
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