TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burnham, Peter
TI  - Research Methods in Politics
SN  - 333962540
AV  - JA 86 .R47 2004 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - China
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - EDUCATIONAL TOOLS
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter1. The discipline of politics -- Chapter2. Research design -- Chapter3. Comparative methodology -- Chapter4. Surveys and opinion polls -- Chapter5. Descriptive statistics -- Chapter6. Making inferences -- Chapter7. Documentary and archival analysis -- Chapter8. The Internet and political research -- Chapter9. Elite interviewing -- Chapter10. Participant observation and the analysis of communications -- Chapter11. Ethics and political research  -- Chapter12. Conclusion: challenging the mainstream and the qualitative/quantitative divide
N2  - This major new text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics. The book is illustrated throughout with boxed examples of real political research
ER  -