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5.8: Suggestions for Further Study

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    General resources on research methods:

    • Geddes, Barbara. 2003. Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
    • Hoover, Kenneth. And Donovan, Todd. 2014. The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

    General resources on data sources:

    • University of Michigan. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Available online at www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/icsc/datasets.jsp
    • UCLA Library. Research Guides, “Social Statistics and Data,” Available online at http://guides.library.ucla.edu/data/sources

    Measuring regime type:

    Concept mapping:

    • Novak, Joseph D. and Alberto Cañas. 2006. “The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them.” Available online at web.stanford.edu/dept/SUSE/projects/ireport/articles/concept_maps/The%20Theor y%20Underlying%20Concept%20Maps.pdf

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