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Since political methodology is not my main business I will upgrade
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Contents
Statistics and friends
Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
(get stuff on quasi-experimental design, policy evalutation such)
(mathematical simulation, game theory and such)
(get collaboration stuff, e.g. jcma's and moo's)
Bibliographies On-Line
- Electronic Statistics Textbook (good)
- King, Gary. ``A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem,'' book manuscript draft
- The Challenge of Teaching Statistics to Non-Specialists
by Mustafa R. Yilmaz, Northeastern University, Journal of Statistics Education v.4, n.1 (1996)
- Developing Material for Introductory Statistics Courses
from a Conceptual, Active Learning Viewpoint
by R. Kirk Steinhorst and Carolyn M. Keeler University of Idaho,
Journal of Statistics Education v.3, n.3 (1995)
Teaching Statistics: Making It Memorable
by Eric R. Sowey, University of New South Wales, Journal of Statistics Education v.3, n.2 (1995)
Action Enquiry by David Tripp
Useful books (qualitative methodology mostly)
(* = the ones I have; # = ordered)
* Dey, Ian, Qualitative Data Analysis: A User-friendly Guide for Social Scie
* Feldman, M. S. (1995). Strategies for interpreting qualitative data. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [HM131 .F388 1995]
* Clifford Geertz. 1973. ``Thick Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture,'' in Gertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, Basic Books: 3-30.
Gary King; Robert Keohane; and Sidney Verba. 1995. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, Princeton University Press.
Jay MacLeod. 1987. Ain't No Makin' It, Westview Press.
* Kelle, Udo (Ed.), Computer-aided Qualitative Data Analysis : Theory, Methods and P
* Psathas, George, Conversation Analysis: The Study of Talk-in-interaction
* Silverman, David, Interpreting Qualitative Data : Methods for Analysing Talk, Text
* W. Phillips Shively (ed). 1984. The Research Process in Political Science, F.E. Peacock Press.
Catherine Cassell and Gillian Symon, entitled Qualitative Methods in Organizational
Research. It is available through SAGE Publications
Karl Weick's 1995 book, _Sensemaking in Organizations_ (Sage publications)
presents a qualitative exploration of this key aspect of organizational
behavior.
Helen Schwartzman wrote _Ethnography in Organizations_, a Sage
University Paperback (1993, Qualitative Research Methods series #27)
looks directly at qual. research in orgs. She also wrote _The Meeting:
Gatherings in Organizations & Communities (1989, New York: Plenum
Publishing Corporation.) which might be of interest. And you shouldn't
overlook Weick's earlier book, _The Social Psychology of Organizing_.
Heady stuff.
Frost, P. J., Moore, L. F. Louis, M. R., Lundberg, C. C., & Martin, J.
(1985). Organizational culture. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Rothman, J., Erlich, J. L. (1995). Strategies for community organizing.
(5th Ed). Itasca, IL: F. E. Peacock.
Mondros, J. B., & Wilson, S. M. (1994). Organizing for power and
empowerment. New York,NY: Columbia University Press.
The following book discusses community and organizational issues & methods
in conducting action research:
Stringer, E. T. (1996). Action research: A handbook for practitioners.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Michael Owen Jones's Studying Organizational Symbolism, published in 1996 by
Sage. It is a part of the Qualitative Research Methods series (the blue
books).
Pasted from some newsgroups:
A text that provides a nice overview of qualitative methods as well as
possible links between qualitative and quantitative approaches is Bernard,
R. 1994 "Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative
Approaches" Sage Publications (2nd edition)
My favorite candidate is a Sage green book by Joseph A. Maxwell entitled
Qualitative Research Design.
Diane, I'd suggest Corrine Glesne & Alan Peshkin's(1992) Becoming
Qualitative Researchers.Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman. The approach is
ethnographic but I think that you and your students will find it very
enabling.
Articles
Agar, M. and J.R. Hobbs. (1982). Interpreting discourse: Coherence and the analysis of ethnographic interviews. Discourse Processes, 5, 1-32.
Eckstein. 1975. ``Case Study and Theory in Political Science''. The Handbook of Political Science, Vol. 1
Geddes, "How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get," Political Analysis 2 (1990): 131-52.
George and McKeown. 1985. ``Case Studies and Theories of Organizational Decision Making,''Advances in Information Processing in Organizations, vol. 2: 21-58.
Paul Holland. 1986. ``Statistics and Causal Inference,'' with comments and rejoinder. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81, 396 (December): 945-70.
(Qualitative Analysis mostly)
- QDA software resources Good index on QDA software.
- QDA Index (including software) by E.Horber
- QUARC German Site, with good information about QDA software.
- Qualitative Analysis Tools Good Index at CTI, York Univ.
- Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (See also: Other useful web sites (software) (including downloadable demos)
- SIByl: The Social Science Software DatabankBIG searchable index with program descriptions!
- QDA Software packages:
(Note: Software descriptions taken from product home pages or SIByl)
- DISMAL:
"Dismal was developed to support sequential data (protocol)
analysis. It provides typical support for exploratory sequential data
analysis, such as the ability to compute word counts, to search for
lines matching given patterns, and to semi-automatically assign codes
to segments. Further, it supports aligning predictions with sequential
data, for example, a model trace and verbal utterances. When a
complete description of correspondences can be provided such as
keystrokes by the subject and the model, the two sequences can be
automatically aligned. When the comparison is less clear, such as
between a subject's verbal utterances and representations in the
model, semi-automatic commands allow an analyst to align items by
pointing. Together, these commands substantially reduce the work of
testing cognitive models with protocols by up to a factor of five
(Ritter & Larkin, 1994), allowing such analyses to be performed more
often and with more insight." (Emacs-mode, freeware)
- ATLAS-ti:
"ATLAS/ti is an easy to use, yet powerful computer software for the
support of qualitative data analysis, text interpretation, text
management and "grounded" theory building. It offers a
non-hierarchical, explorative approach to the complex phenomens hidden
in your textual, graphical and audio data. Application areas include
the social sciences, economics, educational sciences, criminology,
market research, quality management, knowledge acquisition, and
theology - domains, all of which make intelligent use of textual data."
"ATLAS/ti is an easy to use, yet powerful system for the support of
text-based qualitative analysis tasks, eg. text management,
interpretation and theory-building. It may be used wherever text
(e.g., interview transcripts, literature, free text data bases) is the
basis of your research. Current applicational fields include:
criminology, education, ethno-studies, history, law, knowledge
acquisition, management studies, psychology, theology. ATLAS/ti
combines different techniques like hypertext, data base management,
knowledge representation, information retrieval and visualization into
a versatile tool offering you a multitude of functions to help
overcome the mono-dimensionality of "linear" text. Miscellaneous
functions include the generation of SPSS jobs for quantitative
investigations. The graphical user interface encourages an explorative
approach to mastering the program."
(DM 590, Dos Demo and Win Beta (9/96) available)
- Q.S.R. Nudist:
"Q.S.R. NUD.IST 3.0 (Non numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching
and Theory-building) is a multi-functional software system for the
development, support and management of qualitative data analysis (QDA)
projects. These are projects involving the analysis of unstructured
data such as text from interviews, historical or legal documents, or
non-textual documentary material such as videotapes Ð in order to
develop an analysis or understanding of the documentary material. QDA
techniques are used in many forms by social scientists, historians,
literary critics, health researchers, business and market analysts,
legal researchers, and others."
- QED:
"This program is developed for researchers working with qualitative
data (interviews, observation-data, questionnaires, monographs,
archive materials, etc). QED-Analysis provides these researchers with
a powerfull set of useful tools for their data analysis.
Whether
you use QED-Analysis mainly for efficient storage and retrieval, or
for highly structured, cyclical coding and hypothesis testing, this
program will save you time and allows you to be 'on top' of your
materials."
- The BASP Package
"The Bonn Archaeological Software Package (BASP) is a non-commercial,
non-profit software project for and by archaeologists which has been
developed cooperatively since 1973. It now includes more than 60
functions for seriation, clustering, correspondance analysis, and
other tools for archaeologists working with IBM compatible PC's under
DOS and Windows."
- The Ethnograph:
"The Ethnograph v4.0 facilitates the management and analysis of text
based data such as transcripts of interviews, focus groups, field
notes, diaries, meeting minutes, and other documents. The Ethnograph
v4.0 simplifies the process of categorizing, searching, and sorting
data according to the researcher's own analytic scheme. Developed for
qualitative social science research, The Ethnograph v4.0 is a powerful
and flexible tool applicable to any academic, clinical, and corporate
setting where the analysis of text based data is required."
- Code-A-Text:
Code-A-Text is a software package that was written to help in the
training of psychotherapists. It was originally designed to facilitate
the analysis of therapeutic conversations where clinicians, teachers
and research workers wanted to understand the ideas and structures
underlying the "texts". Recently, Code-A-Text has been applied to
other types of "texts", including process (field notes), responses to
open ended questionnaires and reports. Code-A-Text supports the coding
of documents, transcripts or sound files.
- HyperResearch:
It lets you: "Code any amount of data any number of times.
Retrieve and manipulate portions of coded source material.
Test propositions about the data on any code or combination of codes using Boolean searches.
Test hypotheses about the overall meaning of your data using artificial intelligence.
Print or export the retrieved data to a word processor, spreadsheet or statistical package."
- Kwalitan:
"Kwalitan is a menu driven program for the personal computer,
supporting the researcher at the analysis of qualitative data, such as
the protocols of interviews and observations, or existing written
material, such as articles from newspapers, annual reports of
enterprises, ancient manuscripts, and so on. In fact, Kwalitan is a
special purpose database program. The program has been developed in
accordance with the narrowly elaborated procedures of the so called
grounded theory approach, in which the researcher tries to generate a
theoretical framework by means of an interpretative analysis of the
qualitative material. The program can also be used in situations in
which the researcher already has a theoretical framework and an
elaborate list of codes."
- WINMAX
"WINMAX analyses qualitative data like interview transcripts, field
notes, documents, and letters. Codewords can be attached to text
segments. Hierarchical codeword systems with unlimited levels of
hierarchy can be defined. WINMAX is a code-and-retrieve program that
allows to retrieve text segments depending on the codewords and their
co-occurence. Additionaly, a second order cooling process is
supported, where quantitative variables may be defined. These data may
be exported to SPSS and other statistical programs."
- Sequence!
"Sequence is a program for analysing sequential data. For example;
life events, animal behaviour, or interview-respondant interactions
can be described as a sequence of events. Sequence incorporates a
great number of different analyses to study sequential data."
(MacIntosh, free demo, Price: 450 Dutch)
- Decision/Negotiation/etc Software packages:
- BanXia Software:
Graphics Cope and Frontier Analyse
"When you need to gain an in-depth understanding
of complex problems, Graphics COPE helps you
make a comprehensive 'qualitative' model. You
build a 'map which can then be explored and
analysed to help develop strategy, decision
making and business problems."
"To analyse efficiency and measure performance in
your organisation, you need Frontier Analyst.Using
the technique known as Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA), you can perform objective,
comparitive efficiency studies."
- Expert Choice:
"Expert Choice is a program for the analysis of complex decisions. To
evaluate the decision alternatives a model is build with a goal,
criteria, sub-criteria, and alternatives at the bottom. By comparing
the different alternatives, a judgment is made about the most likely
alternative with respect to a certain criteria. The program allows you
to easily delete or insert alternatives or criteria. Options are
available to display the model up to six levels or
horizontally. Comparisons can be made numerical, graphical, or by
preference. The sensitivity analysis allows you to investigate the
impact of changing one of the alternatives. The installation procedure
is easy; the manual deals with all available program options."
(Demo available)
- Others:
- Experimental Design: helps researchers to determine the statistical requirements of a research project.
- TACTWeb
TACTweb connects TACT to the World Wide Web -- making a TACT TDB database
accessible to the entire WWW community.
- WordNet (needs Java)
D.K.S.