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Designing Social Inquiry
by: Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, Sidney Verba
02 May, 1994
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691034710
From the Publisher
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.
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