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The Importance of Research Design in Political Science

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Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. By King Gary, Keohane Robert O., and Verba Sidney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. 238p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1995

Gary King ,
Robert O. Keohane  and
Sidney Verba
Gary King
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Robert O. Keohane
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Sidney Verba
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Review Symposium: The Qualitative-Quantitative Disputation: Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba's Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
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American Political Science Review , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 475 - 481
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