Designing Social Inquiry

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Designing Social Inquiry is an influential methodological book in political science that sets out a unified framework for conducting rigorous qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences.

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instanceOf	book ⓘ methodology book ⓘ political science book ⓘ
academicDiscipline	methodology of social sciences ⓘ
aimsTo	improve quality of empirical research designs ⓘ provide unified framework for rigorous social science research ⓘ
argues	good research design is more important than specific statistical techniques ⓘ qualitative and quantitative research share a common logic of inference ⓘ social inquiry should approximate the logic of controlled experiments ⓘ
author	Gary King ⓘ Robert O. Keohane ⓘ Sidney Verba ⓘ
centralConcept	causal inference from observational data ⓘ concept formation ⓘ data collection strategies ⓘ hypothesis testing ⓘ measurement error ⓘ model specification ⓘ problem of selection bias ⓘ research design for causal identification ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
field	political science ⓘ social science research methodology ⓘ
focusesOn	causal inference ⓘ qualitative research ⓘ quantitative research ⓘ research design ⓘ scientific inference in social science ⓘ unified logic of inference ⓘ
hasReception	sparked extensive debate in qualitative methods ⓘ widely cited in political science ⓘ
influenced	development of qualitative methods standards in political science ⓘ subsequent literature on causal inference in social sciences ⓘ
influentialIn	American politics ⓘ comparative politics ⓘ international relations ⓘ mixed-methods research ⓘ qualitative methods ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
publicationYear	1994 ⓘ
publisher	Princeton University Press ⓘ
relatedWork	Rethinking Social Inquiry ⓘ
shortTitle	Designing Social Inquiry self-link ⓘ
theoreticalApproach	positivism ⓘ scientific method in social sciences ⓘ
title	Designing Social Inquiry self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
usedAs	graduate methods textbook ⓘ reference work for research design ⓘ

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