Field Research in Political Science by Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M. MacLean, and Benjamin L. ReadCall Number: JA86 .K37 2015
ISBN: 9781107006034
Publication Date: 2015
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. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field, making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments.