The Essentials of Political AnalysisStudent anxiety runs high given the seemingly intimidating nature of the methods course. Philip Pollock's first order of business is to get math-phobic students comfortable learning and using the tools of political analysis. Brief and accessible, his text walks students through the basics—measuring concepts, formulating and testing hypotheses, describing variables—and uses key terms, chapter-opening objectives, more than eighty tables and figures, and class-tested chapter exercises to promote skill application and aid student review. |
Contents
The Definition and Measurement of Concepts | 7 |
2 | 18 |
Exercises | 24 |
Copyright | |
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