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Redefining rigor : ideology and statistics in political inquiry

Title: Redefining rigor : ideology and statistics in political inquiry / Philip L. Beardsley.
Author: Beardsley, Philip L.
Publication: Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, ©1980.

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Description

xii, 199 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Sage library of social research ; v. 104

Uniform Title

Sage library of social research ; v. 104.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Part I: Some current methodological assumptions that obscure the role of ideology in political inquiry -- 1. Four elements of ideology -- 2. Three unfortunate tendencies -- Part II: Ideologies and statistics -- 3. Facts, values, and causality: types of models that can express ideological issues -- 4. Models whose causal relationships are prohibitively complex -- 5. Models whose measured variables and statistical relationships are inherently ambiguous and deceptive -- 6. Models whose theoretical variables are normatively charged to a hopeless degree -- Part III: Conclusion -- 7. Toward a new conception of rigor: ideological synthesis.

ISBN

0803914725
9780803914728
0803914733
9780803914735

LCCN

80012623

OCLC

ocm06143740
6143740
SCSB-20769

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library