The craft of political research - Shively, W. Phillips, 1942- (Boston : Pearson, 1977)
Doing research -- Political theories and research topics -- Importance of dimensional thinking -- Problems of measurement: accuracy -- Problems of measurement: precision -- Causal thinking and design of research -- Selection of observations for study -- Introduction to statistics: measuring relationships for interval data -- Introduction to statistics: further topics on measurement of relationships -- Introduction to statistics: inference, or how to gamble on your research.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Political science -- Research -- Methodology