This is an excellent book. It should be useful for both graduate students and their supervisors (especially those making their first steps in supervising PhD students). The book offers a systematic and reflective guide to empirical research in the social sciences. It can also benefit researchers in other disciplines, such as law
Oren Perez, Political Studies Review
This book offers advice to doctoral researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students on how to embark on their research. Based on a decade of teaching early-stage researchers in the social sciences at the LSE and other universities, and written with the central problems of beginning researchers in mind, Bob Hancké guides them through the process of thinking about the links between theory, cases and data, and to do so in a way that helps to turn their initial plausible ideas into convincing arguments. This lively book, deliberately jargon-free and with a hands-on, pragmatic approach to research design, addresses the problems that research students face - or ignore, often at their peril - in the course of their first few years. Its central message is that research is a complex and iterative process in which researchers construct every relevant part of their project with one goal in mind: make a persuasive point. They define the question they ask and the debate they engage, construct their cases and data to answer that question, and write it up as an argument that brings out the strengths of their research design. It addresses such key issues as statistical versus configurational approaches, time in social science research, different types of case studies and comparative research, and a critical approach to data. The Appendix gives tips on presenting and discussing papers, and on crafting research proposals.
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Offering advice to beginning doctoral researchers and advanced graduate students on how to embark on their research this lively book, which is deliberately kept jargon-free and adopts a hands-on approach to research design, addresses the problems that research students face - or ignore, often at their peril - in the course of their first few years.
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APPENDIX: PARTICIPATING IN THE PROFESSION
Essential reading for anyone embarking on research in the social sciences
A short, inexpensive guide to research that students can use alongside more established texts
Addresses problems of research design in terms which are recognisable to students
Clear sections on how to identify a good research question, present papers, and discuss papers
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Bob Hancké is a Reader in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He published Large Firms and Institutional Change (Oxford University Press 2002), Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradiction and Complementarities in the European Economy (co-edited with Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (Oxford University Press 2007), and Debating Varieties of Capitalism: A Reader, (Oxford
University Press 2009). His main interests are: the comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies, institutions and macro-economic policy in EMU, comparative labour relations and trade union studies.
Les mer
Essential reading for anyone embarking on research in the social sciences
A short, inexpensive guide to research that students can use alongside more established texts
Addresses problems of research design in terms which are recognisable to students
Clear sections on how to identify a good research question, present papers, and discuss papers
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ISBN
9780199570782
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
392 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
158
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