Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-157) and index.
Contents
Doing Research -- Political Theories and Research Topics -- The Importance of Dimensional Thinking -- Problems of Measurement: Accuracy -- Problems of Measurement: Precision -- Causal Thinking and the Design of Research -- Introduction to Statistics: Measuring Relationships for Interval Data -- Introduction to Statistics: Further Topics on Measurement of Relationships -- Introduction to Statistics: Inference, or How to Gamble on Your Research -- Where Do Theories Come From?.