POLI 311 Study Guide - United States Presidential Election, 2008, Government Simulation Game, Dependent And Independent Variables
30 Jan 2014
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The major purpose of the book is to show that the differences between quantitative and qualitative traditions are only stylistic and are methodologically and substantively unimportant. All good research can be understood indeed, is best understood to derive from the same underlying logic of inference. Both quantitative and qualitative research can be systematic and scientific. This paper is particularly related to scientific method and the research process. Conceptual differentiation can be increased by moving down the ladder to concepts that have more defining attributes and fit a narrower range of cases. However, moving down the latter can produce conceptual stretching because they presume the cases under discussion are definitely democracies. Diminished subtypes (useful for avoiding conceptual stretching) have two crucial components: Another method to avoid conceptual stretching and achieve conceptual differentiation is pr cising the definition by adding defining attributes (for example, mainwaring and perez- Lastly, another strategy is shifting the overarching concept; the classical subtype.
