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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
  • Political science > Methodology
  • Political statistics
  • Ideology
  • ideology
  • Forschungsmethode
  • Politische Wissenschaft
  • Ideologie
  • Methode
  • Ideology > Political aspects
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