TY  - BOOK
AU  - King, Gary
AU  - Keohane, Robert O.
AU  - Verba, Sidney
TI  - Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific inference in qualitative research
SN  - 9780691224626
U1  - 300.72 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Qualitative Research
KW  - Inference
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Research
N2  - Designing Social Inquiry presents a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science, showing how the same logic of inference underlies both. This stimulating book discusses issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and the uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and getting the most out of qualitative research. It addresses topics such as interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. The book only uses mathematical notation to clarify concepts, and assumes no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics. Featuring a new preface by Robert O. Keohane and Gary King, this edition makes an influential work available to new generations of qualitative researchers in the social sciences
ER  -