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| essentials of political analysis: A Stata® Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock III, Barry C. Edwards, 2018-10-09 This textbook is a great resource for teaching students how to conduct basic quantitative analysis using Stata. It provides intuitive examples from real data sets. I think it is a great resource for teaching students how to carry their own research projects. —Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State University Popular for its speed, flexibility, and attractive graphics, Stata is a powerful tool for political science students. With Philip Pollock′s Fourth Edition of A Stata® Companion to Political Analysis, students quickly learn Stata via step-by-step instruction, more than 50 exercises, customized datasets, annotated screen shots, boxes that highlight Stata′s special capabilities, and guidance on using Stata to read raw data. This attractive and value-priced workbook, an ideal complement to Pollock’s Essentials of Political Analysis, is a must-have for any political science student working with Stata. Give your students the SAGE edge! SAGE edge offers a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of free tools and resources for review, study, and further exploration, keeping both instructors and students on the cutting edge of teaching and learning. |
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| essentials of political analysis: An IBM SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock III, 2011-07-22 In Philip H. Pollock's An IBM SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis, students dive headfirst into actual political data and work with a software tool that prepares them for future political science research. Students learn by doing with fresh guided examples, new annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and exercises that reflect current scholarly debates in American political behavior and comparative politics. Compatible with all releases of SPSS (12.0 and later), the all-new Fifth Edition includes 53 new or revised exercises. Two new datasets (NES 2012 and GSS 2012) and two revised datasets (on the 50 states and on 167 countries of the world) feature an expanded number of variables to provide greater latitude for performing original analysis. |
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| essentials of political analysis: The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis Robert E. Goodin, Charles Tilly, 2008-06-20 The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis of the political world. The work in the volume has a common aim in being sensitive to the thoughts of contextual nuances that disappear from large-scale quantitative modelling or explanations based on abstract, general, universal laws of human behavior. It shows that 'context matters' in a great many ways: philosophical context matters; psychological context matters; cultural and historical contexts matter; place, population, and technology all matter. By showcasing scholars who specialize in the analysis of all these contexts side-by-side, the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis shows how political scientists can take those crucial contextual factors systematically into account. |
| essentials of political analysis: Doing Research in Political Science Paul Pennings, Hans Keman, Jan Kleinnijenhuis, 2005-11-11 This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research... an excellent introduction to the comparative method giving an authoritative overview over the research process - Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern Doing Research in Political Science is the book for mastering the comparative method in all the social sciences - Jan-Erik Lane, University of Geneva This book has established itself as a concise and well-readable text on comparative methods and statistics in political science I...strongly recommend it. - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Philipps-University Marburg This thoroughly revised edition of the popular textbook offers an accessible but comprehensive introduction to comparative research methods and statistics for students of political science. Clearly organized around three parts, the text introduces the main theories and methodologies used in the discipline. Part 1 frames the comparative approach within the methodological framework of the political and social sciences. Part 2 introduces basic descriptive and inferential statistical methods as well as more advanced multivariate methods used in quantitative political analysis. Part 3 applies the methods and techniques of Parts 1 & 2 to research questions drawn from contemporary themes and issues in political science. Incorporating practice exercises, ideas for further reading and summary questions throughout, Doing Research in Political Science provides an invaluable step-by-step guide for students and researchers in political science, comparative politics and empirical political analysis. |
| essentials of political analysis: Foreign Policy Analysis Jean-Frédéric Morin, Jonathan Paquin, 2018-01-03 This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years. It provides the essentials of emerging theoretical trends, data and methodological pitfalls and major case-studies and is designed to be a key entry point for graduate students, upper-level undergraduates and scholars into the discipline. The volume features an eclectic panorama of different conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to foreign political analysis, focusing on different models of analysis such as two-level game analysis, bureaucratic politics, strategic culture, cybernetics, poliheuristic analysis, cognitive mapping, gender studies, groupthink and the systemic sources of foreign policy. The authors also clarify conceptual notions such as doctrines, ideologies and national interest, through the lenses of foreign policy analysis. |
| essentials of political analysis: A Stata® Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock III, 2015-01-21 With Philip Pollock's Third Edition of A Stata Companion to Political Analysis, students quickly learn Stata via step-by-step instruction, more than 50 exercises, customized datasets, annotated screen shots, boxes that highlight Stata's special capabilities, and guidance on using Stata to read raw data. This attractive and value-priced workbook, an ideal complement to Pollock’s Essentials of Political Analysis, is a must-have for any political science student working with Stata. |
| essentials of political analysis: The Fundamentals of Political Science Research Paul M. Kellstedt, Guy D. Whitten, 2009 This textbook introduces the scientific study of politics, supplying students with the basic tools to be critical consumers and producers of scholarly research. |
| essentials of political analysis: Essentials of Marketing Research Kenneth E. Clow, Karen E. James, 2013-01-09 Essentials of Marketing Research takes an applied approach to the fundamentals of marketing research by providing examples from the business world of marketing research and showing students how to apply marketing research results. This text focuses on understanding and interpreting marketing research studies. Focusing on the 'how-to' and 'so what' of marketing research helps students understand the value of marketing research and how they can put marketing research into practice. There is a strong emphasis on how to use marketing research to make better management decisions. The unique feature set integrates data analysis, interpretation, application, and decision-making throughout the entire text. The text opens with a discussion of the role of marketing research, along with a breakdown of the marketing research process. The text then moves into a section discussing types of marketing research, including secondary resources, qualitative research, observation research, and survey research. Newer methods (e.g. using blogs or Twitter feeds as secondary resources and using online focus groups) are discussed as extensions of traditional methods such. The third section discusses sampling procedures, measurement methods, marketing scales, and questionnaires. Finally, a section on analyzing and reporting marketing research focuses on the fundamental data analysis skills that students will use in their marketing careers. Features of this text include: - Chapter Openers describe the results of a research study that apply to the topics being presented in that chapter. These are taken from a variety of industries, with a greater emphasis on social media and the Internet. - A Global Concerns section appears in each chapter, helping prepare students to conduct market research on an international scale.This text emphasizes the presentation of research results and uses graphs, tables, and figures extensively. - A Statistics Review section emphasizes the practical interpretation and application of statistical principles being reviewed in each chapter. - Dealing with Data sections in each chapter provide students with opportunities to practice interpreting data and applying results to marketing decisions. Multiple SPSS data sets and step-by-step instructions are available on the companion site to use with this feature. - Each Chapter Summary is tied to the chapter-opening Learning Objectives. - A Continuing Case Study follows a group of students through the research process. It shows potential trade-offs, difficulties and flaws that often occur during the implementation of research project. Accompanying case questions can be used for class discussion, in-class group work, or individual assignments. - End-of-Chapter Critical Thinking Exercises are applied in nature and emphasize key chapter concepts. These can be used as assignments to test students' understanding of marketing research results and how results can be applied to decision-making. - End-of-chapter Your Research Project provides more challenging opportunities for students to apply chapter knowledge on an in-depth basis, and thus olearn by doing. |
| essentials of political analysis: Empirical Political Analysis Craig Leonard Brians, 2016-05-23 Empirical Political Analysis introduces students to the full range of qualitative and quantitative methods used in political science research. Organized around all of the stages of the research process, this comprehensive text surveys designing experiments, conducting research, evaluating results, and presenting findings. With exercises in the text and in a companion lab manual, Empirical Political Analysis gives students applied insights on the scopes and methods of political science research. Features: Offers comprehensive coverage of quantitative and qualitative research methods in political science, a hallmark since it first published over 25 years ago. Covers the research process from start to finish—hypothesis formation, literature review, research design, data gathering, data analysis, and research report writing. Includes in-depth examples of political science research to give discipline-specific instruction on political analysis. Features a “Practical Research Ethics” box in every chapter to make students aware of common ethical dilemmas and potential solutions to them. Written by political scientists who actively publish in subfields ranging from comparative politics to environmental policy to political communications to voting behavior. Includes learning goals, key terms, and research examples to help students engage and explore the most important concepts. |
| essentials of political analysis: A Stata Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock, 2006-05-15 Tables and Figures ix Preface xiii Getting Started 1 Copying the Data Files to Floppy Disk or Other Portable Media 2 How to Handle the Datasets 2 Contents of the Datasets 4 Notes 4 Introduction to Stata 5 Commands Covered describe, codebook, set more off, search, help Changing General Preferences 5 Obtaining Information about a Dataset 6 Obtaining Information about Variables 9 Creating and Viewing a Log File 10 A Closer Look Obtaining Specific Variable Information with Define Notes 11 Printing Results 13 Getting Help 13 Exercises 17 Notes 17 Descriptive Statistics 19 Commands Covered tab1, summarize, sktest, histogram, Submit button Interpreting Measures of Central Tendency and Variation 19 Describing Nominal Variables 20 Describing Ordinal Variables 21 Describing Interval-level Variables 23 Obtaining Bar Charts and Histograms 27 Creating Bar Charts 27 Creating Histograms 32 A Closer Look The Submit Button and the OK Button: What's the Difference? 33 Exercises 35 Notes 40 Transforming Variables 43 Commands Covered recode, generate; generate, recode; xtile, nquantiles; generate; tabulate, generate; label variable; label define; label values; drop; aorder Transforming Categorical Variables 44 Transforming Interval-level Variables 46 A Closer Look The xtile Command 48 The label define and label values Commands 51 Creating an Additive Index 51 Creating Indicator Variables 53 Exercises 55 Notes 58 Making Comparisons 59 Commands Covered tabulate, column; tabulate, summarize; graph bar; format; replace Cross-tabulation Analysis 59 Mean Comparison Analysis 60 A Closer Look The format Command 62 Visualizing Relationships with Bar Charts 62 Graphing an Interval-level Dependent Variable 63 Graphing a Categorical Dependent Variable 67 A Closer Look The replace Command 70 Exercises 73 Notes 83 Making Controlled Comparisons 85 Commands Covered (prefix) bysort:, tabulate, col; tabulate, summarize; graph bar; if Cross-tabulation Analysis with a Control Variable 86 A Closer Look The if Qualifier 88 Bar Charts for Controlled Comparisons with a Categorical Dependent Variable 89 Mean Comparison Analysis with a Control Variable 91 Bar Charts for Controlled Comparisons with an Interval-level Dependent Variable 96 Exercises 98 Notes 105 Making Inferences about Sample Means 107 Commands Covered ttest; ttest, by; robvar, by Describing a Sample Mean 108 Testing the Difference between Two Sample Means 111 Exercises 116 Notes 118 Chi-square and Measures of Association 121 Commands Covered (tabulate option) chi2; (tabulate option) taub; (tabulate option) V; somersd; lambda; which; ssc install Installing lambda and somersd 122 Analyzing Ordinal-level Relationships 122 Analyzing Nominal-level Relationships 127 A Problem with Lambda 129 Exercises 130 Notes 136 Correlation and Linear Regression 137 Commands Covered correlate; regress; graph twoway (scatter); graph twoway (scatter)(lfit) The correlate Command and the regress Command 137 Creating a Scatterplot 139 A Closer Look R-squared and Adjusted R-squared: What's the Difference? 140 Exploring Multivariate Relationships with Regression 147 Exercises 150 Notes 156 Dummy Variables and Interaction Effects 159 Commands Covered xi: regress; char [omit]; test Regression with Dummy Variables A Closer Look The test Command 162 Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression 164 Graphing Linear Prediction Lines for Interaction Relationships 167 Exercises 173 Notes 178 Logistic Regression 181 Commands Covered logit; logistic; estimates store; Irtest, force; predict; adjust, by pr gen; quietly:; tabstat, by The logit Command and the logistic Command 182 Logistic Regression with Multiple Independent Variables 185 A Closer Look The estimates Command and the Irtest Command 187 Working with Predicted Probabilities: Models with One Independent Variable 188 Working with Predicted Probabilities: Models with Multiple Independent Variables 191 Exercises 196 Notes 201 Doing Your Own Political Analysis 203 Commands Covered insheet Five Doable Ideas 203 Political Knowledge 204 Economic Performance and Election Outcomes 204 State Courts and Criminal Procedure 204 Electoral Turnout in Comparative Perspective 205 Congress 205 Doing Research on the U.S. Senate 205 Finding Raw Data 206 How to Code Raw Data 206 A Closer Look The Stata Data Editor 208 Two Possible Coding Shortcuts 210 Importing Text Data 212 Writing It Up 215 The Research Question 215 Previous Research 216 Data, Hypotheses, and Analysis 216 Conclusions and Implications 216 Notes 217. |
| essentials of political analysis: Modern Political Analysis Robert A. Dahl, 1965 |
| essentials of political analysis: Stata Companion to Political Analysis Philip H Pollock III, 2010-10-19 Popular for its speed, flexibility, and attractive graphics, Stata is a powerful tool for political science students. With Pollock's second edition, students quickly learn Stata with step-by-step instruction, more than 50 exercises, customized datasets, annotated screen shots, boxes that highlight Stata's special capabilities, and guidance on using Stata to read raw data. Updates to this edition include: Comprehensive coverage of the Stata Graph Editor; Enhanced discussion of graph types, with brand-new coverage of group means and the twoway command; New and updated datasets, including GSS and NES (all datasets include additional variables for use on research papers, exams, or assignments); New end-of-chapter exercises, which gradually increase in difficulty to reinforce and build on key concepts; and Improved guidance on using Internet-available data, from downloading to inputting multiple formats- Excel, HTML, and PDF. |
| essentials of political analysis: The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats Raymond F. Smith, 2011 Until the recent unauthorized release of thousands of classified State Department cables, public attention was rarely drawn to the frequently outstanding political analysis done by American diplomats abroad. The existing literature on diplomacy has heretofore been limited to memoirs of former diplomats and analyses of international affairs by diplomats, academics, and think tanks. The Craft of Political Analysis offers a fresh approach, one that provides a context for interpreting this embassy reporting and a guide to understanding the work that went on behind the scenes to produce it. Author Raymond F. Smith combines a practitioner's personal view of what is required to do good diplomatic political analysis with his understanding of the social conflict and change that informed his work for the State Department. Smith clearly explains everything the Foreign Service candidate or professional, as well as the interested layman, needs to know about crafting political analysis, including how to write for the analyst's intended audience, how to make best use of the intellectual and analytical tools of the trade, what happens when the analyst's views differ from government policy, and why political analysis risks becoming irrelevant, even though it is still urgently needed. In addition, The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats features two case studies using legally declassified cables not included in the Wikileaks release. The first is built around four highly restricted Embassy Moscow cables on the collapse of the Soviet Union; the second includes two cables on the Arab-Israeli conflict that received the State Department's highest award for political analysis. Selected for the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs professionals. |
| essentials of political analysis: An IBM® SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis Philip H. Pollock III, Barry C. Edwards, 2019-07-11 In Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards’ trusted IBM SPSS® workbook, students dive headfirst into actual political data and work with a software tool that prepares them not only for future political science research, but the job world as well. Students learn by doing with new guided examples, annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and exercises that reflect current scholarly debates in American political behavior and comparative politics. This Sixth Edition of An IBM SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis features thoroughly revised and updated datasets and is compatible with all post-12 releases of SPSS. |
| essentials of political analysis: Political Analysis Using R James E. Monogan III, 2015-12-14 This book provides a narrative of how R can be useful in the analysis of public administration, public policy, and political science data specifically, in addition to the social sciences more broadly. It can serve as a textbook and reference manual for students and independent researchers who wish to use R for the first time or broaden their skill set with the program. While the book uses data drawn from political science, public administration, and policy analyses, it is written so that students and researchers in other fields should find it accessible and useful as well. By the end of the first seven chapters, an entry-level user should be well acquainted with how to use R as a traditional econometric software program. The remaining four chapters will begin to introduce the user to advanced techniques that R offers but many other programs do not make available such as how to use contributed libraries or write programs in R. The book details how to perform nearly every task routinely associated with statistical modeling: descriptive statistics, basic inferences, estimating common models, and conducting regression diagnostics. For the intermediate or advanced reader, the book aims to open up the wide array of sophisticated methods options that R makes freely available. It illustrates how user-created libraries can be installed and used in real data analysis, focusing on a handful of libraries that have been particularly prominent in political science. The last two chapters illustrate how the user can conduct linear algebra in R and create simple programs. A key point in these chapters will be that such actions are substantially easier in R than in many other programs, so advanced techniques are more accessible in R, which will appeal to scholars and policy researchers who already conduct extensive data analysis. Additionally, the book should draw the attention of students and teachers of quantitative methods in the political disciplines. |
| essentials of political analysis: Contemporary Political Analysis James Clyde Charlesworth, 1967 |
| essentials of political analysis: Essentials of Visual Interpretation Rachel R Reynolds, Greg Niedt, 2020-12-29 Essentials of Visual Interpretation explains how to talk and write critically about visual media and to examine how evolving visual environments, media, and technologies affect human selfunderstanding and culture formation. Lively and accessibly written chapters provide a solid foundation in the tools and ideas of visual meaning, familiarizing readers with a growing, cross-cultural subfield, and preparing them to pursue thoughtful work in a variety of related disciplines. The authors include rich examples and illustrations—ranging from cave paintings to memes, from optical science to visual analytics, from ancient pictographs to smart phones—that engage students with the fascinating complexity of visual interpretation. Each chapter introduces students to key terms and concepts relevant to visual analysis, with ideas for short individual or group exercises to enhance understanding. The book is ideal as a primer in visual analysis and visual communication for students in courses within communication studies, cultural studies, digital humanities, semiotics, media studies, and visual anthropology. Online support materials include multimedia activities for students and links to additional resources for students and instructors. |
| essentials of political analysis: Understanding Political Science Statistics Peter Galderisi, 2015-03-12 In politics, you begin by asking theoretically interesting questions. Sometimes statistics can help answer those questions. When it comes to applied statistics, students shouldn’t just learn a vast array of formula—they need to learn the basic concepts of statistics as solutions to particular problems. Peter Galderisi demonstrates that statistics are a summary of how to answer the problem: learn the math but only after learning the concepts and methodological considerations that give it context. With this as a starting point, Understanding Political Science Statistics asks students to consider how to address a research problem conceptually before being led to the appropriate formula. Throughout, Galderisi looks at problems through a lens of observations and expectations, which can be applied to myriad statistical techniques, both descriptive and inferential. This approach links the answers researchers get from their individual data analysis to the research designs and questions from which these analyses are derived. By emphasizing the underlying logic of statistical analysis for greater understanding and drawing on applications and examples from political science (including law), the book illustrates how students can apply statistical concepts and techniques in their own research, in future coursework, and simply as an informed consumer of numbers in public discourse. The following features help students master the material: Legal and Methodological sidebars highlight key concepts and provide applied examples on law, politics, and methodology; End-of-chapter exercises allow students to test their mastery of the basic concepts and techniques along the way; A Sample Solutions Guide provides worked-out answers for odd-numbered exercises, with all answers available in the Instructor’s Manual; Key Terms are helpfully called out in both Marginal Definitions and a Glossary; A Companion Website (www.routledge.com/cw/galderisi) with further resources for both students and instructors; A diverse array of data sets include subsets of the ANES and Eurobarometer surveys; CCES; US Congressional district data; and a cross-national dataset with political, economic, and demographic variables; and Companion guides to SPSS and Stata walk students through the procedures for analysis and provide exercises that go hand-in-hand with online data sets. |
| essentials of political analysis: Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning Carl Patton, David Sawicki, Jennifer Clark, 2015-08-26 Updated in its 3rd edition, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning presents quickly applied methods for analyzing and resolving planning and policy issues at state, regional, and urban levels. Divided into two parts, Methods which presents quick methods in nine chapters and is organized around the steps in the policy analysis process, and Cases which presents seven policy cases, ranging in degree of complexity, the text provides readers with the resources they need for effective policy planning and analysis. Quantitative and qualitative methods are systematically combined to address policy dilemmas and urban planning problems. Readers and analysts utilizing this text gain comprehensive skills and background needed to impact public policy. |
| essentials of political analysis: Essentials of Mass Communication Theory Arthur Asa Berger, 1995-07-05 'Solid and elegantly written introduction to its subject, up to speed with the current movements in the field, this is an excellent textbook for first-year students. The layout is well-conceived, and interspersed with Berger's own whimsical cartoons' - Sight and Sound |
| essentials of political analysis: Political Science Research in Practice Akan Malici, Elizabeth S. Smith, 2018-09-03 Nothing rings truer to those teaching political science research methods: students hate taking this course. Tackle the challenge and turn the standard research methods teaching model on its head with Political Science Research in Practice. Akan Malici and Elizabeth S. Smith engage students first with pressing political questions and then demonstrate how a researcher has gone about answering them, walking them through real political science research that contributors have conducted. Through the exemplary use of a comparative case study, field research, interviews, textual and interpretive research, statistical research, survey research, public policy and program evaluation, content analysis, and field experiments, each chapter introduces students to a method of empirical inquiry through a specific topic that will spark their interest and curiosity. Each chapter shows the process of developing a research question, how and why a particular method was used, and the rewards and challenges discovered along the way. Students can better appreciate why we need a science of politics—why methods matter—with these first-hand, issue-based discussions. The second edition now includes: Two completely new chapters on field experiments and a chapter on the textual/interpretative method. New topics, ranging from the Arab Spring to political torture to politically sensitive research in China to social networking and voter turnout. Revised and updated Exercises and Discussion Questions sections. Revised and updated Interested to Know More and Recommended Resources sections. |
| essentials of political analysis: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Political Science Hans Keman, Jaap J. Woldendorp, 2016-12-30 This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research methods and applications currently in use in political science. It combines theory and methodology (qualitative and quantitative), and offers insights into the major approaches and their roots in the philosophy of scientific knowledge. Including a comprehensive discussion of the relevance of a host of digital data sources, plus the dos and don’ts of data collection in general, the book also explains how to use diverse research tools and highlights when and how to apply these techniques. |
| essentials of political analysis: Introducing Comparative Politics Stephen Orvis, Carol Ann Drogus, 2017-11-30 For Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials, the driving force is the pluralist, objective stance on introducing students to core concepts in Comparative Politics. Authors Stephen Orvis and Carol Ann Drogus introduce key comparative questions while providing equal strengths and weaknesses of commonly debated theories, structures, and beliefs that push students beyond memorization of country profiles and ever-changing statistics and generate in-class debate over key concepts used in the science of comparative politics. While detailed case studies can go in-depth on specific countries and political systems, Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials, distills its country material into paragraph-long examples woven seamlessly into the narrative of the text, increasing diverse global awareness, current-event literacy, and critical-thinking skills. |
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