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100			_aKing, Gary _eauthor. _914567
245			_aDesigning Social Inquiry _bScientific inference in qualitative research _cby Gary King and others.
260			_aPrinceton, New Jersey _bPrinceton University Press _c2021.
300			_axvii, 243p. _c25 cm
520			_aDesigning 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.
650			_aQualitative Research _914568
650			_aInference _914569
650			_aSocial Sciences _xMethodology _914570
650			_aSocial Sciences _xResearch _914571
700			_aKeohane, Robert O. _eauthor. _914572
700			_aVerba, Sidney _eauthor. _914573
999			_c11053 _d11053