The Fundamentals of Political Science Research

The Fundamentals of Political Science Research provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. It offers the basic tools necessary for readers to become both critical consumers and beginning producers of scientific research on politics. Professors Kellstedt and Whitten present an integrated approach to research design and empirical analyses in which researchers can develop and test causal theories. The authors use examples from political science research that students will find interesting and inspiring, and that will help them understand key concepts. The book makes technical material accessible to students who might otherwise be intimidated by mathematical examples. This revised second edition refines discussions from the first edition, with a new chapter on how to write an original research project. The second edition also contains an additional forty exercises and adds definitions for terms discussed in each chapter.

• Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
• Political Analysis Using R (Use R!)
• Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
• Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform
• Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
• Congress: The Electoral Connection, Second Edition
• An IBM SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis
• Congress and Its Members
• Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Second Edition
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America