An Spss Companion to Political Analysis - Couverture souple

Pollock, Philip H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1568027702 ISBN 13 : 9781568027708

Editeur : CQ Press, 2004

Synopsis

An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis introduces SPSS using actual political data, getting students to employ the tools of their methods course right away in the computer lab. With more than 110 screen shots, straightforward instructions, and customised data sets - for both students and full versions of SPSS - the workbook companion equips students to do real political science research and analysis. As part of this useful guide, a CD-ROM includes five different datasets: Two individual-level survey datasets (the 2000 US National Election Study and the 1998 US General Social Survey), two datasets containing aggregate-level variables (on the fifty US states and on 114 nations of the world), and a dataset that measures partisanship, voting behaviour, and ideology of members of the United States Senate.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In his popular workbook, An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis, Philip H. Pollock III gets students using actual political data and working with a software tool that prepares them for future political science courses. Now updated using SPSS 16.0, the new third edition is a no-nonsense and friendly introduction to using SPSS: students learn through a series of guided examples, reference 120 screenshots, and can count on step-by-step instructions to all procedures. As in previous editions, the workbook covers the full array of data analysis procedures from introductory to advanced, including descriptive statistics and data transformations, to dummy variables and interaction effects. A final chapter shows students how to code data and how to read it into SPSS. With 50% more exercises than in the previous edition, students not only interact with a range of substantive political science questions, but encounter more exercises on comparative and international politics, investigating such topics as the relative importance of cultural and institutional factors in shaping political parties or the extent to which wealth is equally distributed within countries. The third edition also delves deeper into the use of graphic display to complement empirical results. Students learn state of the art editing techniques using SPSS Chart Editor, while following protocols described by leading experts in the graphic display of quantitative information. In addition to creating simple bar charts and line graphs, students will learn to produce scatterplots and logistic regression curves. The datasets have been thoroughly updated and expanded, and include a set for student version users. A solutions manual with answers to all of the exercises is available to adopters.

Biographie de l'auteur

Philip H. Pollock III is professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. He has taught courses in research methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels for nearly 30 years. His main research interests are American public opinion, voting behavior, techniques of quantitative analysis, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His recent research has been on the effectiveness of Internet-based instruction. Pollock s research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, and British Journal of Political Science. Recent scholarly publications include articles in Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of Political Science Education, and PS: Political Science and Politics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CQ Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1568027702
• ISBN 13: 9781568027708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible