Description
An award-winning book, Doing Research is a must read. Designed for students across a variety of social science disciplines, it is the first research methods text devoted to conflict analysis and resolution. It begins with a discussion of the philosophical foundations for doing research, providing guidelines on how to develop research questions and how these questions can be addressed with various methodologies. The book presents a wide-ranging treatment of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the design and analysis of problems of conflict.
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue
Doing Research on Conflict
Part Introduction
Why Do Research?
Research Foundations: Debating Points
Research Motivations, Assumptions, Questions
Some Contributions from Research on Conflict
Discussion Questions
Getting Started to Do Research
Where Ideas Come From
Choosing a Research Topic
Alternative Methodological Approaches
Choosing an Approach
Discussion Questions
Performing Experiments
Part Introduction
Designing Experiments and Conducting Simulations
The Experimental Method: An Overview
Internal and External Validity
Experimental Designs: Examples from CA&R
Summary
Discussion Questions
Evaluating Data from Experiments: Methods of Analysis
Essential Ideas of Statistical Analysis
Measurement and Statistical Power: Two-Group Designs
Measurement and Power: Three-Group Designs
Factorial Designs
Repeated Measures and Other ANOVA Designs
Summary
Discussion Questions
Designing and Conducting Surveys
Part Introduction
Survey Research
Overview
Survey Research Design
Measurement
Sampling
Data Collection
Ethics
Conclusions
Discussion Questions
Doing Case-Based Research
The Case-Study Method: An Overview
Enhanced-Case and Time Series Analyses
Theory and the Case Study
Time-Series Designs and Analyses
Systematic Expert Judgment
Qualitative Time-Series Analysis
Summary
Comparative Case Study Approaches
Focussed Case Comparisons
Aggregate Case Comparisons
Discussion Questions
Writing Ethnographies
Part Introduction
Ethnographic Methods
What is Ethnography?
Why do Ethnography?
The Logic of Ethnography
Making Sense of Other Worlds
Taking Notes
The Ethnographer's Tool Kit
Discussion Questions
Analyzing Documents: Texts and Process Analysis
Part Introduction
Content Analysis
Overview of the Approach
Technical Issues for the Content Analyst
Content Analysis Applications
Discussion Questions
Narrative Analysis
Overview of the Approach
Narrative Theory
Analysis of Narratives
Discussion Questions
Evaluating Interventions and Applying Research
Part Introduction
Evaluation Research
Challenges of Evaluation
Tasks in an Evaluation Project
Evaluation Issues
Evaluating Interventions: An Example of a Framework
Discussion Questions
Research for Action and Consulting
Basic and Applied Research
Action Research
Research Consulting
Discussion Questions
Concluding
Part Introduction
From Philosophies to Research Methods: The Value of Doing Research in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Doing Research: Philosophies and Methodologies
Research Issues
Summary of Methods Covered
Comparing the Methodologies: Experiments, Surveys, and Case Studies
Types of Data
Wrapping Up
Epilogue
References
