Reading

The text books for the autumn term for this course will be:

Lee G. Burchinal, Methods for Social Researchers in Developing Countries
http://pacanetusa.org/resource/file/13/srmdc_022208.pdf

Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Internet Guide to SPSS for Windows
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wlm/wlmspss.htm

Recommended readings will be drawn from:

Craig Leonard Brians, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim andRichard Rich, Empirical Political Analysis: Research Methods in Political Science,8th^th edition, Pearson Longman, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-205-79121-7

Students are also advised to consult the following on-line textbooks which have also been used in previous years for the course.

John L. Korey, Politically-Oriented Web-Enhanced Research Methods for Undergraduates — Topics and Tools as adapted from: http://www.csupomona.edu/%7Ejlkorey/POWERMUTT/index.html

Some other useful texts that I considered using for this course include:

Thomas J. Linneman, Social Statistics: The Basics and Beyond, Routledge, 2011.

Robert Pearson, Statistical Persuasion, Sage, 2010

David Kremelberg, Practical Statistics, Sage 2011.

Paul M. Kellstedt & Guy Whitten, The Fundamentals of Political Science Research, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-521-69788-0;

Michael Haan, Introduction to Statistics for Canadian Social Scientists, 2009. ISBN:978-0-195-42608-3.

Phillip H. Pollock III, The Essentials of Political Analysis, 4th edition, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2011.

The third edition is pictured

Other text used in the past include:

Earl Babbie, The Practice of Social Research;

Earl Babbie and Lucia Benaquisto, Fundamentals of Social Research, Chava Frankfurt-Nachmias, Social Statistics for a Diverse Society;

George Argyrous, Statistics for Research with a Guide to SPSS, Sage, 2005.

ISBN 1412919487 (paperback).

There are many other good books on research design, statistics, graphics and making presentations that we think may prove useful and worthwhile, so please visit the POL242 recommended reading page!