TY - BOOK AU - Toshkov,Dimiter TI - Research design in political science SN - 9780230019478 U1 - 320.072 20 PY - 2016/// CY - Basingstoke [England] PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Ciencias políticas KW - Investigaciones N1 - Designing research in political science / Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig -- Increasing the relevance of research questions / Matthias Lehnert, Bernhard Miller, and Arndt Wonka -- Concept specification in political science research / Arndt Wonka -- Typologies in social inquiry / Matthias Lehnert -- Making measures capture concepts / Bernhard Miller -- Achieving comparability of secondary data / Julia Rathke -- Dealing effectively with selection bias in large-n research / Janina Thiem -- Case selection and selection bias in small-n research / Dirk Leuffen -- Selecting independent variables / Ulrich Sieberer -- Discriminating among rival explanations : some tools for small-n researchers / Andreas Dür -- Falsification in theory-guided empirical social research : how to change a tire while riding your bicycle / Dirk De Bièvre -- Lessons for the dialogue between theory and data / Thomas Gschwend and Frank Schimmelfennig ER -