Understanding Political Science Research Methods av Maryann Barakso, Daniel M. Sabet, Brian Schaffner

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<P>This text starts by explaining the fundamental goal of good political science research¿the ability to answer interesting and important questions by generating valid inferences about political phenomena. Before the text even discusses the process of developing a research question, the authors introduce the reader to what it means to make an inference and the different challenges that social scientists face when confronting this task. Only with this ultimate goal in mind will students be able to ask appropriate questions, conduct fruitful literature reviews, select and execute the proper research design, and critically evaluate the work of others. </P><P>The authors'' primary goal is to teach students to critically evaluate their own research designs and others¿ and analyze the extent to which they overcome the classic challenges to making inference: internal and external validity concerns, omitted variable bias, endogeneity, measurement, sampling, and case selection errors, and poor