An Introduction to American Government, 4th Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Sidney Verba

Kenneth Prewitt

Politics & Government

HarperCollins, Publishers

In Participation in America, we consider two general political processes: that by which citizens come to participate in political life and that by which their participation affects the responsiveness of government leaders. This involves the explication of some general variables - measures of various forms of political participation, measures of social status, of political attitudes, of voluntary association memberships, of citizen policy preferences, of leader policy preferences, and the like - and statements about expected relationships among them. It is by entering these specific values as they existed in the United States in the late 1960s that we see how these processes work in that particular context, and is why this work is relevant to American politics.

Participation in America

Norman H. Nie

Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers

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The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, An Analytic Study

Gabriel A. Almond

Anthropology

Little,Brown

The changing American voter

An examination of voting behavior from 1956 through 1976 reveals a weakening of party identification and an increase of citizen interest in major issues

The Changing American Voter

John R. Petrocik

Harvard University Press

Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse academic traditions, have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. Their book demonstrates that the same logic of inference underlies both good quantitative and good qualitative research designs, and their approach applies equally to each. Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, the authors explore issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research. Among the specific topics they address are interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. Mathematical notation is occasionally used to clarify concepts, but no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics is assumed. The unified logic of inference that this book explicates will be enormously useful to qualitative researchers of all traditions and substantive fields.

Gary King

Robert O. Keohane

Princeton University Press

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