RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: An Introduction Using MicroCase (Eight Edition)

This book will describe and explain the basic features of the research process in political science. These features will also be demonstrated through the Student Version of the MicroCase analysis system, but the same ideas and basic procedures would also apply if you were using a different statistical analysis system such as SPSS or SAS. After completing this book, you will be able to
• define and explain the core concepts used in the discussion of research methods in political science
• explain the basis strategy and stages—from the beginning state to the ending stage—of political science research
• create a data file and to the appropriate statistical analysis of variables in data files

Michael K. Le Roy is a professor of political science and Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty at Whitworth University in Washington state. He received his Ph.D. in political science at Vanderbilt University, and he was a Fulbright scholar at Gothenburg University in Sweden. Michael Le Roy returned to Whitworth in fall 2002 from Wheaton college, in Illinois, where he served as chair of the Department of Political Science. Le Roy still teaches for the Political Science Department and Continues as a team member for the Central America Study-Service Program. His research on civil society, xenophobia, and the European Union has been published in the journal Comparative Politics. He is also the author of Comparative Politics: An Introduction (4th edition). Le Roy won Wheaton College's faculty achievement award for excellence in teaching in 1998 and a similar award from the American Political Science Association's honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha, in 1999.