The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations

1332 Pages·2020·22.48 MB·english

by  Luigi Curini (editor)

The SAGE Handbook of
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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xvii
Notes on the Editors and Contributors xx
An Introduction xxxix
Foreword xliii
VOLUME 1
Preface: So You’re A Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This 1
Gary King
PART I FORMULATING GOOD RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND
DESIGNING GOOD RESEARCH PROJECTS 5
1. Asking Interesting Questions
William Roberts Clark 7
2. From Questions and Puzzles to Research Project 26
Adam McCauley and Andrea Ruggeri
3. The Simple, the Trivial and the Insightful: Field Dispatches from
a Formal Theorist 44
Branislav L. Slantchev
4. Evidence-Driven Computational Modeling 60
Ravi Bhavnani, Karsten Donnay and Mirko Reul
5. Taking Data Seriously in the Design of Data Science Projects 79
Mitchell Goist and Burt L. Monroe
6. Designing Qualitative Research Projects: Notes on Theory Building,
Case Selection and Field Research 104
Ezequiel González-Ocantos
7. Theory Building for Causal Inference: EITM Research Projects 121
Thomas Bräuninger and Tilko Swalve
8. EITM: Applications in Political Science and International Relations 142
John Aldrich and Jim Granato
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PART II METHODS OF THEORETICAL ARGUMENTATION 159
9. Political Psychology, Social Psychology and Behavioral Economics 161
Rose McDermott
10. Institutional Theory and Method 173
Maxfield J. Peterson and B. Guy Peters
11. Applied Game Theory: An Overview and First Thoughts on the
Use of Game Theoretic Tools 192
Adam Meirowitz and Kristopher W. Ramsay
12. The Spatial Voting Model 205
James Adams, Samuel Merrill III and Roi Zur
13. New Directions in Veto Bargaining: Message Legislation, Virtue Signaling,
and Electoral Accountability 224
Charles Cameron and Nathan Gibson
14. Models of Coalition Politics: Recent Developments and New Directions 244
Lanny W. Martin and Georg Vanberg
15. Models of Interstate Conflict 261
James D. Morrow and Jessica S. Sun
16. Models of the Judiciary 277
Deborah Beim
17. Wrestling with Complexity in Computational Social Science: Theory,
Estimation and Representation 289
Scott de Marchi and Brandon M. Stewart
18. Learning and Diffusion Models 311
Scott J. LaCombe and Frederick J. Boehmke
PART III CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT 329
19. Conceptualization and Measurement: Basic Distinctions and Guidelines 331
Gerardo L. Munck, Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning
20. Measurement Models 353
Christopher J. Fariss, Michael R. Kenwick and Kevin Reuning
21. Measuring Attitudes – Multilevel Modeling with Post-Stratification (MrP) 371
Lucas Leemann and Fabio Wasserfallen
Contents vii
PART IV LARGE-SCALE DATA COLLECTION AND REPRESENTATION
METHODS 385
22. Web Data Collection: Potentials and Challenges 387
Dominic Nyhuis
23. How to Use Social Media Data for Political Science Research 404
Pablo Barberá and Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld
24. Spatial Data 424
David Darmofal and Christopher Eddy
25. Visualizing Data in Political Science 436
Richard Traunmüller
26. Text as Data: An Overview 461
Ken Benoit
27. Scaling Political Positions from Text: Assumptions, Methods and Pitfalls 498
Benjamin C.K. Egerod and Robert Klemmensen
28. Classification and Clustering 522
Sarah B. Bouchat
29. Sentiment Analysis and Social Media 534
Luigi Curini and Robert A. Fahey
30. Big Relational Data: Network-Analytic Measurement 552
Ernesto Calvo, Joan C. Timoneda and Tiago Ventura
VOLUME 2
PART V QUANTITATIVE-EMPIRICAL METHODS 575
31. Econometric Modeling: From Measurement, Prediction, and Causal
Inference to Causal-Response Estimation 577
Robert Franzese
32. A Principled Approach to Time Series Analysis 599
Suzanna Linn and Clayton Webb
33. Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis 616
Vera Troeger
34. Dynamic Systems of Equations 632
Mark Pickup
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35. Duration Analysis 659
Kentaro Fukumoto
36. Multilevel Analysis 679
Marco Steenbergen
37. Selection Bias in Political Science and International Relations Applications 701
Tobias Böhmelt and Gabriele Spilker
38. Dyadic Data Analysis 717
Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper
39. Model Specification and Spatial Interdependence 730
Scott J. Cook, Jude C. Hays, and Robert Franzese
40. Instrumental Variables: From Structural Equation Models to
Design-Based Causal Inference 748
Christopher L. Carter and Thad Dunning
41. Causality and Design-Based Inference 769
Jake Bowers and Thomas Leavitt
42. Statistical Matching with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data: Magic,
Malfeasance, or Something in between? 805
Richard A. Nielsen
43. Differences-in-Differences: Neither Natural nor an Experiment 822
Luke Keele
44. The Regression Discontinuity Design 835
Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocío Titiunik, and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
45. Network Analysis: Theory and Testing 858
Jennifer N. Victor and Elsa T. Khwaja
46. Network Modeling: Estimation, Inference, Comparison, and Selection 876
John P. Schoeneman and Bruce A. Desmarais
47. Bayesian Methods in Political Science 895
Jong Hee Park and Sooahn Shin
48. Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation 910
Shawn Treier
49. Bayesian Model Selection, Model Comparison, and Model Averaging 937
Florian M. Hollenbach and Jacob M. Montgomery
50. Bayesian Modeling and Inference: A Postmodern Perspective 961
Jeff Gill and Simon Heuberger
Contents ix
51. Laboratory Experimental Methods 985
Rebecca Morton and Mateo Vásquez-Cortés
52. Field Experiments on the Frontier: Designing Better 999
Betsy Sinclair
53. Field Experiments, Theory, and External Validity 1007
Anna M. Wilke and Macartan Humphreys
54. Survey Experiments and the Quest for Valid Interpretation 1036
Gustavo Diaz, Christopher Grady, and James H. Kuklinski
55. Deep Learning for Political Science 1053
Kakia Chatsiou and Slava Jankin Mikhaylov
56. Machine Learning in Political Science: Supervised Learning Models 1079
Santiago Olivella and Kelsey Shoub
PART VI QUALITATIVE AND ‘MIXED’ METHODS 1095
57. Set Theoretic Methods 1097
Adrian Duşa
58. Mixed-Methods Designs 1117
Imke Harbers and Matthew C. Ingram
59. Case Study Methods: Case Selection and Case Analysis 1133
Chiara Ruffa
60. Comparative Analyses of Foreign Policy 1148
Klaus Brummer
61. When Talk Isn’t Cheap: Opportunities and Challenges in Interview Research 1167
Claire Greenstein and Layna Mosley
62. Focus Groups: From Qualitative Data Generation to Analysis 1190
Virginie Van Ingelgom
63. Interpretive Approaches in Political Science and International Relations 1211
Xymena Kurowska and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
Editors’ Afterword 1231
Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese
Index 1232