Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000 by Van Evera, Stephen
Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000 by Van Evera, Stephen

Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000

Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in...
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Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000 by Van Evera, Stephen

Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000

$33.85
Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000 by Van Evera, Stephen

Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000

$33.85
Author: Stephen Van Evera
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, and history - and for their advisers.

-How should we frame, assess, and apply theories in the social sciences? "I am unpersuaded by the view that the prime rules of scientific method should differ between hard science and social science. Science is science."

-A section on case studies shows novices the ropes.

-Van Evera contends the realm of dissertations is often defined too narrowly "Making and testing theories are not the only games in town.... If everyone makes and tests theories but no one ever uses them, then what are they for?"

-In "Helpful Hints on Writing a Political Science Ph.D. Dissertation," Van Evera focuses on presentation, and on broader issues of academic strategy and tactics.

-Van Evera asks how political scientists should work together as a community. "All institutions and professions that face weak accountability need inner ethical rudders that define their obligations in order to stay on course."



Author: Stephen Van Evera
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 09/04/1997
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.47w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780801484575
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Stephen Van Evera is Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Director of the MIT Center for International Studies. He is the author of Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, also from Cornell.


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