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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Predicate	Object
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 →
theoreticalApproach	positivism → scientific method in social sciences →
title	Designing Social Inquiry → surface form: "Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research"
usedAs	graduate methods textbook → reference work for research design →

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