The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of the field and its research processes through the empirical and research scholarship of leading international authors.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• An Introduction
• Foreword
• Preface: So You're A Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This - Gary King
• Part I: Formulating Good Research Questions and Designing Good Research Projects
• 1. Asking Interesting Questions - William Roberts Clark
• 2. From Questions and Puzzles to Research Project - Adam McCauley and Andrea Ruggeri
• 3. The Simple, the Trivial and the Insightful: Field Dispatches from a Formal Theorist - Branislav L. Slantchev
• 4. Evidence-Driven Computational Modeling - Ravi Bhavnani, Karsten Donnay and Mirko Reul
• 5. Taking Data Seriously in the Design of Data Science Projects - Mitchell Goist and Burt L. Monroe
• 6. Designing Qualitative Research Projects: Notes on Theory Building, Case Selection and Field Research - Ezequiel González-Ocantos
• 7. Theory Building for Causal Inference: EITM Research Projects - Thomas Bräuninger and Tilko Swalve
• 8. EITM: Applications in Political Science and International Relations - John Aldrich and Jim Granato
• Part II: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation
• 9. Political Psychology, Social Psychology and Behavioral Economics - Rose McDermott
• 10. Institutional Theory and Method - Maxfield J. Peterson and B. Guy Peters
• 11. Applied Game Theory: An Overview and First Thoughts on the Use of Game Theoretic Tools - Adam Meirowitz and Kristopher W. Ramsay
• 12. The Spatial Voting Model - James Adams, Samuel Merrill III and Roi Zur
• 13. New Directions in Veto Bargaining: Message Legislation, Virtue Signaling, and Electoral Accountability - Charles Cameron and Nathan Gibson
• 14. Models of Coalition Politics: Recent Developments and New Directions - Lanny W. Martin and Georg Vanberg
• 15. Models of Interstate Conflict - James D. Morrow and Jessica S. Sun
• 16. Models of the Judiciary - Deborah Beim
• 17. Wrestling with Complexity in Computational Social Science: Theory, Estimation and Representation - Scott de Marchi and Brandon M. Stewart
• 18. Learning and Diffusion Models - Scott J. LaCombe and Frederick J. Boehmke
• Part III: Conceptualization and Measurement
• 19. Conceptualization and Measurement: Basic Distinctions and Guidelines - Gerardo L. Munck, Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning
• 20. Measurement Models - Christopher J. Fariss, Michael R. Kenwick and Kevin Reuning
• 21. Measuring Attitudes – Multilevel Modeling with Post-Stratification (MrP) - Lucas Leemann and Fabio Wasserfallen
• Part IV: Large-Scale Data Collection and Representation Methods
• 22. Web Data Collection: Potentials and Challenges - Dominic Nyhuis
• 23. How to Use Social Media Data for Political Science Research - Pablo Barberá and Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld
• 24. Spatial Data - David Darmofal and Christopher Eddy
• 25. Visualizing Data in Political Science - Richard Traunmüller
• 26. Text as Data: An Overview - Ken Benoit
• 27. Scaling Political Positions from Text: Assumptions, Methods and Pitfalls - Benjamin C.K. Egerod and Robert Klemmensen
• 28. Classification and Clustering - Sarah B. Bouchat
• 29. Sentiment Analysis and Social Media - Luigi Curini and Robert A. Fahey
• 30. Big Relational Data: Network-Analytic Measurement - Ernesto Calvo, Joan C. Timoneda and Tiago Ventura
• Part V: Quantitative-Empirical Methods
• 31. Econometric Modeling: From Measurement, Prediction, and Causal Inference to Causal-Response Estimation - Robert Franzese
• 32. A Principled Approach to Time Series Analysis - Suzanna Linn and Clayton Webb
• 33. Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis - Vera Troeger
• 34. Dynamic Systems of Equations - Mark Pickup
• 35. Duration Analysis - Kentaro Fukumoto
• 36. Multilevel Analysis - Marco Steenbergen
• 37. Selection Bias in Political Science and International Relations Applications - Tobias Böhmelt and Gabriele Spilker
• 38. Dyadic Data Analysis - Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper
• 39. Model Specification and Spatial Interdependence - Scott J. Cook, Jude C. Hays, and Robert Franzese
• 40. Instrumental Variables: From Structural Equation Models to Design-Based Causal Inference - Christopher L. Carter and Thad Dunning
• 41. Causality and Design-Based Inference - Jake Bowers and Thomas Leavitt
• 42. Statistical Matching with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data: Magic, Malfeasance, or Something in between? - Richard A. Nielsen
• 43. Differences-in-Differences: Neither Natural nor an Experiment - Luke Keele
• 44. The Regression Discontinuity Design - Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocío Titiunik, and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
• 45. Network Analysis: Theory and Testing - Jennifer N. Victor and Elsa T. Khwaja
• 46. Network Modeling: Estimation, Inference, Comparison, and Selection - John P. Schoeneman and Bruce A. Desmarais
• 47. Bayesian Methods in Political Science - Jong Hee Park and Sooahn Shin
• 48. Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation - Shawn Treier
• 49. Bayesian Model Selection, Model Comparison, and Model Averaging - Florian M. Hollenbach and Jacob M. Montgomery
• 50. Bayesian Modeling and Inference: A Postmodern Perspective - Jeff Gill and Simon Heuberger
• 51. Laboratory Experimental Methods - Rebecca Morton and Mateo Vásquez-Cortés
• 52. Field Experiments on the Frontier: Designing Better - Betsy Sinclair
• 53. Field Experiments, Theory, and External Validity - Anna M. Wilke and Macartan Humphreys
• 54. Survey Experiments and the Quest for Valid Interpretation - Gustavo Diaz, Christopher Grady, and James H. Kuklinski
• 55. Deep Learning for Political Science - Kakia Chatsiou and Slava Jankin Mikhaylov
• 56. Machine Learning in Political Science: Supervised Learning Models - Santiago Olivella and Kelsey Shoub
• Part VI: Qualitative and ‘Mixed’ Methods
• 57. Set Theoretic Methods - Adrian Duşa
• 58. Mixed-Methods Designs - Imke Harbers and Matthew C. Ingram
• 59. Case Study Methods: Case Selection and Case Analysis - Chiara Ruffa
• 60. Comparative Analyses of Foreign Policy - Klaus Brummer
• 61. When Talk Isn't Cheap: Opportunities and Challenges in Interview Research - Claire Greenstein and Layna Mosley
• 62. Focus Groups: From Qualitative Data Generation to Analysis - Virginie Van Ingelgom
• 63. Interpretive Approaches in Political Science and International Relations - Xymena Kurowska and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
• Editors’ Afterword - Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese