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DETENTE --- DETENTE--RESEARCH

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION--RESEARCH--METHODOLOGY --- NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS--MANAGEMENT

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Each 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 on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts and questions. Instead, they brim with dry technical definitions and focus heavily on statistical analysis, slighting other valuable methods. This approach not only dulls potential enjoyment of the course, but prevents students from mastering the skills they need to engage more directly and meaningfully with a wide variety of research. With wit and practical wisdom, the author draws on more than a decade of experience teaching research methods to transform a typically dreary subject and teach budding political scientists the critical skills they need to read published research more effectively and produce better research of their own. The first part of the book is devoted to asking three fundamental questions in political science : What happened ? Why ? Who cares ? In the second section, the author demonstrates how to answer these questions by choosing an appropriate research design, selecting cases, and working with numbers and written documents as evidence. Drawing on examples from American and comparative politics, international relations, and public policy, this book highlights the most common challenges that political scientists routinely face, and each chapter concludes with exercises so that students can practice dealing with those challenges.

POLITICAL SCIENCE--METHODOLOGY --- POLITICAL SCIENCE--RESEARCH --- Methods in social research (general) --- Politics

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"Theories of Terrorism explains and advances the major theories of terrorism that address issues of becoming a terrorist, being a terrorist, and leaving terrorism, in a clear and accessible format for use by students and academics seeking to advance theoretically driven research in the area. Readers will gain an understanding of the most promising explanations of terrorism that have been developed to date and how they can be used to explore core substantive issues related to the topic. The content is delivered with a scholarly depth, though still accessible by students at different levels. The book offer explains for the three phases of radicalization, covering emerging topics such as women's involvement in terrorism, fear of terrorism, the code of the terrorist, and suicide terrorism. This is the first book in the Advances in Criminological Theory Series to address the issue of terrorism and emphasizes the use of theory for future research development. The style and content coverage of the book make it appropriate as a supplemental text in undergraduate courses on terrorism and political violence. The inclusion of current empirical literature and guidance for future research efforts gives the text appeal for graduate students and academics in the disciplines of criminology/criminal justice, political science, sociology, and interdisciplinary terrorism studies. The emphasis on theory and the radicalization process throughout the text will also make the book useful as a reference for general graduate-level theory courses within these areas"--

Terrorism --- Bombers (Terrorists) --- Criminology. --- Terrorists --- Terrorisme --- Terroristes. --- Criminologie --- Kamikazes (attentats-suicides) --- Research. --- Psychology. --- Psychology --- Recherche. --- Psychologie --- Criminology --- Research --- TERRORISM--RESEARCH --- BOMBERS --- CRIMINOLOGY --- Bombers (Terrorists).

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- National movements --- Genocide --- International relations. --- Research. --- History. --- Political aspects. --- International relations.Research.