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The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis.
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ISBN: 0199270430 9780199270439 9780199548446 0199548447 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

Game theory and Canadian politics
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ISBN: 1442675152 9786612029349 1282029347 9781442675155 9780802079466 0802079466 0802040942 0802079466 9780802040947 9781282029347 Year: 1998 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press

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This is the first book-length application of game theory to Canadian politics. It uses a series of case studies to illustrate fundamental concepts of game theory such as two-person and n-person games; solution in mixed strategies; ordinal games; Nash equilibrium; coordination, Assurance, Chicken and Prisoner's Dilemma models; Schelling curves; coalition theory and Riker's size principle; voting rules, cycles, and the Condorcet winner; the Banzhaf power index; structure-induced equilibrium; and spatial models of political conflict. No mathematics more complex than simple algebra is required to follow the exposition.The case studies are not just contrived illustrations of abstract models but intensively researched studies of important episodes in Canadian politics. Topics include the Lubicon Lake stalemate, metrification and vaccination; the size of winning coalitions; formulas for amending the Canadian constitution; the mechanics of choosing party leaders; Parliament's failure to legislate on abortion after the Morgentaler decision; and the entry of the Reform Party into the political system. In each case, utilization of game-theory models produces new and sometimes surprising conclusions.Game theory, and the rational-choice paradigm of which it is a part, are an increasingly important addition to the conventional modes of political analysis. This book is intended to show what game theory can add to the philosophical, institutional, and behavioural approaches that have dominated previous works on Canadian politics.

Positive Political Theory II : Strategy and Structure
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ISBN: 128242355X 9786612423550 0472022474 9780472022472 9781282423558 6612423552 9780472098941 0472098942 9780472068944 0472068946 Year: 2005 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,


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Interview research in political science
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ISBN: 9780801451942 9780801478635 0801451949 0801478634 0801467969 1322503974 0801467977 9780801467974 9780801467967 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca

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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 this book have worked in a variety of field locations and settings and have interviewed a wide array of informants, from government officials to members of rebel movements and victims of wartime violence, from lobbyists and corporate executives to workers and trade unionists.The authors encourage scholars from all subfields of political science to use interviews in their research, and they provide a set of lessons and tools for doing so. The book addresses how to construct a sample of interviewees; how to collect and report interview data; and how to address ethical considerations and the Institutional Review Board process. Other chapters discuss how to link interview-based evidence with causal claims; how to use proxy interviews or an interpreter to improve access; and how to structure interview questions. A useful appendix contains examples of consent documents, semistructured interview prompts, and interview protocols.Contributors: Frank R. Baumgartner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Matthew N. Beckmann, University of California, Irvine; Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University; Erik Bleich, Middlebury College; Sarah M. Brooks, The Ohio State University; Melani Cammett, Brown University; Lee Ann Fujii, University of Toronto; Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan; Richard L. Hall, University of Michigan; Marie Hojnacki, Pennsylvania State University; David C. Kimball, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Beth L. Leech, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Julia F. Lynch, University of Pennsylvania; Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University; Lauren Maclean, Indiana University; Layna Mosley, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington; William Reno, Northwestern University; Reuel R. Rogers, Northwestern University

Private desires, political action : an invitation to the politics of rational choice
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ISBN: 0761951148 0761951156 1446217043 1857021894 1282559834 9786612559839 0857021893 9780857021892 9780761951148 9780761951155 9781282559837 0587021893 9780587021892 Year: 1997 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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'Private Desires, Political Action' is a masterly & exceptionally clear survey of the fast expanding and notoriously difficult field of rational choice theory.


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The Oxford handbook of political methodology
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ISBN: 9780199286546 019928654X 9780199585564 0199585563 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged in ongoing research and training programs that have advanced quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology presents and synthesizes these developments. The Handbook provides comprehensive overviews of diverse methodological approaches, with an emphasis on three major themes. First, specific methodological tools should be at the service of improved conceptualization, comprehension of meaning, measurement, and data collection. They should increase analysts' leverage in reasoning about causal relationships and evaluating them empirically by contributing to powerful research designs. Second, the authors explore the many different ways of addressing these tasks: through case-studies and large-n designs, with both quantitative and qualitative data, and via techniques ranging from statistical modelling to process tracing. Finally, techniques can cut across traditional methodological boundaries and can be useful for many different kinds of researchers. Many of the authors thus explore how their methods can inform, and be used by, scholars engaged in diverse branches of methodology.

Political science research methods.
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ISBN: 1568028741 9781568028743 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) CQ press

Positive political theory I : collective preference
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ISBN: 1282882929 9786612882920 0472022466 9780472022465 0472087215 9780472087211 0472104802 9780472104802 0472087215 9780472087211 Year: 1999 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] University of Michigan Press

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