Preface | |
Introduction: A Science of Politics | |
The Logic of Research Design: Experiments and Quasi-Experiments | |
"Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public." | |
"Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of White Racial Attitudes." | |
Measurement and Operationalization I: Variables Pertaining to Aggregate Units | |
"Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-1993." | |
"Measuring Political Violence and Land Inequality in Central America." | |
Measurement and Operationalization II: Variables Pertaining to Individual Behavior | |
"Who Are Nonvoters? Profiles from the 1990 Senate Elections." | |
"The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Family Life and Citizen Participation." | |
Surveys | |
"The Political Culture of Ambivalence: Ideological Responses to the Welfare State." | |
"Social Networks, Civil Society, and the Prospects for Consolidating Russia's Democratic Transition." | |
Indexing | |
"Electoral Competition in the American States." | |
Content Analysis | |
"Partisan Cues and the Media: Information Flows in the 1992 Presidential Election." | |
Sampling | |
"City Size and Civic Involvement in Metropolitan America." | |
Rational Choice Analysis | |
"Divided Government in the American States: A Byproduct of Legislative Professionalism?" | |
Univariate Analysis: Statistics of a Single Variable | |
"The Benevolent Leader Revisited: Children's Images of Political Leaders in Three Democracies." | |
Bivariate Analysis: Statistics of Two Variables | |
"Do Majority-Minority Districts Maximize Substantive Black Representation in Congress?" | |
Multivariate Analysis: Statistics of More Than Two Variables | |
"City Size and Civic Involvement in Metropolitan America." | |
"Mass Media and the Depoliticization of Personal Experience." | |
Scientific Principles in Political Study: Some Enduring Controversies | |
Glossary | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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