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Computational Social Sciences eBook Series

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  • Computational Conflict Research

    Edited by Emanuel Deutschmann, Jan Lorenz, Luis G. Nardin, Davide Natalini, Adalbert F. X. Wilhelm ...
    Series series Computational Social Sciences
    This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis.Empirical cases range from migration ... Read more

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    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    by Christopher Howard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books ... Read more

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  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

    by Frans L. Leeuw ...
    In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the interpretations of the many men and women who work on the inside and the outside of the law. Effective regulation thus depends not only on scrupulous legal analysis, with its appeal to precedent, conceptual ... Read more

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  • Computational Social Science

    Discovery and Prediction

    Edited by R. Michael Alvarez ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Quantitative research in social science research is changing rapidly. Researchers have vast and complex arrays of data with which to work: we have incredible tools to sift through the data and recognize patterns in that data; there are now many sophisticated models that we can use to make sense of those patterns; and we have extremely powerful computational systems that help us accomplish these ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Agent-Based Computational Sociology

    by Flaminio Squazzoni ...
    Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent interaction that are difficult to observe methodically and experimentally. This book looks at a new research stream that makes use of advanced computer simulation modelling techniques to spotlight agent interaction that ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Interview Research in Political Science

    Edited by Maria Elayna Mosley ...
    Interviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital need, offering hard-won advice for both graduate students and faculty members. The contributors to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks

    Edited by Mark Lubell, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Networks are omnipresent in our natural and social world, and they are at the heart of politics. Relationships of many types drive political institutions, processes, and decision-making. Therefore, it is imperative for the study of politics to include network approaches. Already, these approaches have advanced our understanding of critical questions, such as: Why do people vote? How can people ... Read more

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  • All International Politics Is Local

    The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

    by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ...
    How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully independent. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch looks at disparate zones in the international system to see ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies

    Edited by Joseph Soeters, Sebastiaan Rietjens, Patricia M. Shields ...
    This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies.As an institution relying on individuals and resources provided by society, the military has been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines: political science, sociology, history, psychology, anthropology, economics and administrative studies. The methodological approaches in these ... Read more

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  • Information and Democracy

    Public Policy in the News

    by Stuart N. Soroka, Christopher Wlezien ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Around the world, there are increasing concerns about the accuracy of media coverage. It is vital in representative democracies that citizens have access to reliable information about what is happening in government policy, so that they can form meaningful preferences and hold politicians accountable. Yet much research and conventional wisdom questions whether the necessary information is ... Read more

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  • New Directions for International Relations

    Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem

    by Bruce Russett, Karl DeRouen Jr, Hazem Adam Ghobarah, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Shaun Goldfinch, William Howell, Paul Huth, Ranan D. Kuperman, Brett Ashley Leeds0, Zeev Maoz1, Jon Pevehouse2, Alastair Smith3, Allan C. Stam4, Ilan Talmud5, Lesley G. Terris6, Michael D. Ward7, Suzanne Werner8, Amy Yuen9 ...
    Series series Innovations in the Study of World Politics
    Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce ... Read more

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  • Cross-Cultural Analysis

    The Science and Art of Comparing the World′s Modern Societies and Their Cultures

    by Michael Minkov ...
    Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture′s Consequences, the classic work published by Geert Hofstede, one of the most influential management thinkers in today′s times. Hofstede′s original work introduced a new research paradigm in cross-cultural analysis: studying cultural differences through nation-level dimensions (complex variables defined by intercorrelated items). This paradigm has ... Read more

    $100.99 USD