Research Methods in Politics and Public Policy

‘The phrase “Publish or Perish” sums up the current predicament of academics in British, Australian and American universities. The principle is that university departments are allocated research funding according to their productivity, m...

Social capital is fundamentally concerned with resources in social relations. This Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world to address important questions on the determinants, manifestations and consequences of soc...

‘Paradata will become increasingly important to researchers, both as an insight into the complexity and richness of participants and contexts, but also it has great potential to improve the quality of our research. Ros Edwards and her co...

‘In this outstanding book, Stuart Shapiro transcends the long-standing impasse in the academic literature about the value of various analysis tools – cost-benefit analysis in particular – and moves the scholarly conversation in a much mo...