Author: Eric Alan Hanushek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Model Specification, Use of Aggregate Data, and the Ecological Correlation Fallacy
Author: Eric Alan Hanushek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem
Author: Gary King
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849209
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data? In political science, this question arises when individual-level surveys are unavailable (for instance, local or comparative electoral politics), unreliable (racial politics), insufficient (political geography), or infeasible (political history). This ecological inference problem also confronts researchers in numerous areas of major significance in public policy, and other academic disciplines, ranging from epidemiology and marketing to sociology and quantitative history. Although many have attempted to make such cross-level inferences, scholars agree that all existing methods yield very inaccurate conclusions about the world. In this volume, Gary King lays out a unique--and reliable--solution to this venerable problem. King begins with a qualitative overview, readable even by those without a statistical background. He then unifies the apparently diverse findings in the methodological literature, so that only one aggregation problem remains to be solved. He then presents his solution, as well as empirical evaluations of the solution that include over 16,000 comparisons of his estimates from real aggregate data to the known individual-level answer. The method works in practice. King's solution to the ecological inference problem will enable empirical researchers to investigate substantive questions that have heretofore proved unanswerable, and move forward fields of inquiry in which progress has been stifled by this problem.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849209
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data? In political science, this question arises when individual-level surveys are unavailable (for instance, local or comparative electoral politics), unreliable (racial politics), insufficient (political geography), or infeasible (political history). This ecological inference problem also confronts researchers in numerous areas of major significance in public policy, and other academic disciplines, ranging from epidemiology and marketing to sociology and quantitative history. Although many have attempted to make such cross-level inferences, scholars agree that all existing methods yield very inaccurate conclusions about the world. In this volume, Gary King lays out a unique--and reliable--solution to this venerable problem. King begins with a qualitative overview, readable even by those without a statistical background. He then unifies the apparently diverse findings in the methodological literature, so that only one aggregation problem remains to be solved. He then presents his solution, as well as empirical evaluations of the solution that include over 16,000 comparisons of his estimates from real aggregate data to the known individual-level answer. The method works in practice. King's solution to the ecological inference problem will enable empirical researchers to investigate substantive questions that have heretofore proved unanswerable, and move forward fields of inquiry in which progress has been stifled by this problem.
The Research Review
Author: U.S. Department of Commerce. Economic Development Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Research Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology
Author: Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks of Political
ISBN: 019928654X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged in ongoing research and training programs that have advanced quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology presents and synthesizes these developments. The Handbook provides comprehensive overviews of diverse methodological approaches, with an emphasis on three major themes. First, specific methodological tools should be at the service of improved conceptualization, comprehension of meaning, measurement, and data collection. They should increase analysts' leverage in reasoning about causal relationships and evaluating them empirically by contributing to powerful research designs. Second, the authors explore the many different ways of addressing these tasks: through case-studies and large-n designs, with both quantitative and qualitative data, and via techniques ranging from statistical modelling to process tracing. Finally, techniques can cut across traditional methodological boundaries and can be useful for many different kinds of researchers. Many of the authors thus explore how their methods can inform, and be used by, scholars engaged in diverse branches of methodology.
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks of Political
ISBN: 019928654X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged in ongoing research and training programs that have advanced quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology presents and synthesizes these developments. The Handbook provides comprehensive overviews of diverse methodological approaches, with an emphasis on three major themes. First, specific methodological tools should be at the service of improved conceptualization, comprehension of meaning, measurement, and data collection. They should increase analysts' leverage in reasoning about causal relationships and evaluating them empirically by contributing to powerful research designs. Second, the authors explore the many different ways of addressing these tasks: through case-studies and large-n designs, with both quantitative and qualitative data, and via techniques ranging from statistical modelling to process tracing. Finally, techniques can cut across traditional methodological boundaries and can be useful for many different kinds of researchers. Many of the authors thus explore how their methods can inform, and be used by, scholars engaged in diverse branches of methodology.
Aggregation and Disaggregation in the Social Sciences
Author: Michael T. Hannan
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Economic Research Studies of the Economic Development Administration
Author: United States. Economic Development Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Policy Studies Review Annual
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780803908482
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780803908482
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Charismatic Bond
Author: Douglas Madsen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674109872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book takes up where Max Weber left off in his study of charisma, and extends and rounds off the theory with insights from other disciplines and new empirical data. Tying Weber's argument about the consequences of societal breakdown to contemporary psychological theorizing on self-efficacy, Douglas Madsen and Peter Snow demonstrate that magnetic personalities must have willing followers.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674109872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book takes up where Max Weber left off in his study of charisma, and extends and rounds off the theory with insights from other disciplines and new empirical data. Tying Weber's argument about the consequences of societal breakdown to contemporary psychological theorizing on self-efficacy, Douglas Madsen and Peter Snow demonstrate that magnetic personalities must have willing followers.
Emile Durkheim
Author: W. S. F. Pickering
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415244039
Category : Durkheimian school of sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A five volume collection of scholarly journal articles and chapters from books covering the subject of Emile Durkheim's work. The five volumes are thematically organized in the following sections: Volume I: 1. Durkheim: The man himself, 2. General sociology. Volume II: 3. Religion, 4. Epistemology and the philosophy of science. Volume III: 5. Morality and ethics, 6. Political sociology. Volume IV: 7. Suicide and anomie, 8. Division of labour and economics, 9. EducationP
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415244039
Category : Durkheimian school of sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A five volume collection of scholarly journal articles and chapters from books covering the subject of Emile Durkheim's work. The five volumes are thematically organized in the following sections: Volume I: 1. Durkheim: The man himself, 2. General sociology. Volume II: 3. Religion, 4. Epistemology and the philosophy of science. Volume III: 5. Morality and ethics, 6. Political sociology. Volume IV: 7. Suicide and anomie, 8. Division of labour and economics, 9. EducationP