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Methods and models : a guide to the empirical analysis of formal models in political science /

"The book is intended to serve as a guide for active and future political scientists who are confronting the issues of empirical analysis and formal models, as well as a basis for a needed dialogue between empirical and formal theoretical researchers in political science. Once combined, these d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morton, Rebecca B., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction: Political science's dilemma
  • Part II. Formal models in political science: What makes a model formal?
  • The variety of formal models
  • Part III. Empirical evaluation of formal models: Fundamentals of empirical evaluation
  • Evaluating assumptions
  • Evaluating predictions: equilibria, disequilibria, and multiequilibria
  • Evaluating relationship predictions
  • Evaluating alternative models
  • Part IV. A second revolution: The present and the future
  • References.