03255cam a2200421 i 4500 113528 113528 18239441 BJBSDRD 20230411090610.0 ta 231019s2015 enk 000 0 eng eng 2014025961 9780521184830 (paperback) 0521184835 (paperback) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc JA 86 K17f 2015 320.072/3 23 Kapiszewski, Diana 9292 Field research in political science : practices and principles / Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M. MacLean, Benjamin L. Read. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Strategies for social inquiry Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Field research in political science: practices and principles -- 2. A historical and empirical overview of field research in the discipline -- 3. Preparing for fieldwork -- 4. Managing in the field: logistical, social, operational, and ethical challenges -- 5. Thinking outside the (archive) box: discovering data in the field -- 6. Interviews, oral histories, and focus groups -- 7. Site-intensive methods: ethnography and participant observation -- 8. Surveys in the context of field research -- 9. Experiments in the field -- 10. Analyzing, writing, and retooling in the field -- 11. The future of field research in political science. "Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of fieldwork in the discipline based on a large-scale survey and extensive interviews. Good fieldwork takes diverse forms yet follows a set of common practices and principles. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides intellectual and practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field and making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments"-- Provided by publisher. Ciencias políticas Trabajo de campo. 4423 Ciencias políticas Investigaciónes 4423 MacLean, Lauren M. 9301 Read, Benjamin Lelan 9302 10213 Strategies for social inquiry Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/06034/cover/9781107006034.jpg 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2019-10-23 0 JA 86 K17f 2015 00000133687 2019-10-23 00:00:00 1 2023-04-11 BK