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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2015
      19 March 2015
      ISBN:
      9780511794551
      9781107006034
      9780521184830
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794551
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.94kg, 470 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.91kg, 480 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Research Methods in Politics, Research Methods in Sociology and Criminology, Research Methods In Sociology and Criminology, Qualitative Research Methods, Politics and International Relations, Research Methods In Politics
      Series:
      Strategies for Social Inquiry
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    Subjects:
    Research Methods in Politics, Research Methods in Sociology and Criminology, Research Methods In Sociology and Criminology, Qualitative Research Methods, Politics and International Relations, Research Methods In Politics
    Series:
    Strategies for Social Inquiry
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    Book description

    Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of fieldwork in the discipline based on a large-scale survey and extensive interviews. Good fieldwork takes diverse forms yet follows a set of common practices and principles. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides intellectual and practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field and making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments.

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    ‘This outstanding book is a must-read for political science scholars, from faculty members contemplating a new project, to doctoral students exploring dissertation topics, to undergraduates embarking on their first research projects. A masterly analysis of how field research contributes to our understanding of politics, the book synthesizes a broad range of literature and also draws on the field experience of the authors. Despite the diversity of approaches to field research in the discipline, authors not only identify a common core of principles and practices but also suggest how they might be deepened and sharpened.’

    Elisabeth Jean Wood - Yale University, Connecticut

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