A Methods of political science
1. Textbooks, encyclopaedias and handbooks:
- Behnke, Joachim/Baur, Nina/Behnke, Nathalie 2005: Empirical methods in political science. UTB/Schöningh, 1st edition.
- Behnke, Joachim /Gschwend, Thomas/Schindler, Delia/Schnapp, Kai-Uwe 2006: Methoden der Politikwissenschaft Neuere qualitative und quantitative Analyseverfahren. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Bernard, H. Russell 2002: Research Methods in Anthropology - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. AltaMira Press, 3rd edition.
- Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M. (ed.) 2008: The Oxford handbook of political methodology. Oxford [et al:] Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Brady, Henry E. (ed.) 2010: Rethinking social inquiry: diverse tools, shared standards, 2nd ed. Lanham [et al:] Rowman & Littlefield.
- Caramani, Daniele 2011: Comparative politics. 2. ed. Oxford [et al:] Oxford University Press.
- Diekmann, Andreas 2010: Empirical Social Research. Foundations, methods, applications. Rowohlt's encyclopaedia. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt
- Donsbach, Wolfgang (ed.) 2008: The SAGE handbook of public opinion research 1. publ. Los Angeles [u.a.] : SAGE Publications.
- Dreier, Volker 1997: Empirical policy research. Munich: Oldenbourg.
- Gill, Jeff 2006: Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research. 1. Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kelle, Udo 2008: Die Integration qualitativer und quantitativer Methoden in der empirischen Sozialforschung: Theoretische Grundlagen und methodologische Konzepte. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- King, Gary/Keohane, Robert O./Verba, Sidney 1994: Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Landman, Todd 2008: Issues and methods in comparative politics: an introduction. 3. ed. London [et al:] Routledge.
- Manheim, Jarol B./Rich, Richard C. 2001: Empirical Political Analysis. Research Methods in Political Science. 5. Edition. Lp: Longman,.
- Nohlen, Dieter (ed.) 2010: Lexikon der Politikwissenschaft: Theorien, Methoden, Begriffe A - M. 4th updated and expanded ed. Munich: Beck.
- Popper, Karl R. 1994: Logic of Research. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck.
- Samac, Klaus/Prenner, Monika/Schwetz, Herbert 2009: Die Bachelor's thesis an Universität und Fachhochschule: ein Lehr- und Lernbuch zur Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten. 1. Ed. Vienna : Facultas Verl.- und Buchhandels AG.
- Schnell, Rainer/Hill, Paul B./Esser, Elke 2008: Methods of empirical social research. Munich: Oldenbourg.
- Sprinz, Detlef F./Wolinsky-Nahmias, Yael 2004: Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations. 1. Edition. The University of Michigan Press.
- Weber, Max 1988: Collected Essays on the Theory of Science. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck.
- Westle, Bettina 2009: Methoden der Politikwissenschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos
2. Quantitative methods and statistics
- Acock, Alan C. 2008: A gentle Introduction to Stata.
- Baur, Nina/Fromm, Sabine (eds.) 2007: Datenanalyse mit SPSS für Fortgeschrittene. A workbook. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Behnke, Joachim/Behnke, Nathalie 2006: Grundlagen der statistischen Datenanalyse. An introduction for political scientists. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Brosius, Felix 2011: SPSS 19: the mitp standard work . Heidelberg: mitp.
- Clauß, Günter/Ebner, Heinz 1982: Statistics. 4. Edition, Volume 1: Fundamentals. Harri Deutsch.
- Fahrmeir, Ludwig/Kneib, Thomas/Lang, Stefan 2009: Regression: Models, Methods and Applications. 2. Berlin [u.a.]: Springer.
- Gehring, Uwe W./Weins, Cornelia 2009: Grundkurs Statistik für Politologen. 5. Edition. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
- Janssen, Jürgen 2009: Statistische Datenanalyse mit SPSS für Windows: Eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in das Basissystem und das Modul Exakte Tests. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Kühnel, Steffen-M./Krebs, Dagmar 2001: Statistics for the Social Sciences. Foundations, methods, applications. Reinbek: Rowohlt.
- Menard, Scott 2010: Logistic regression: from introductory to advanced concepts and applications. Los Angeles [et al:] SAGE.
- Raab, Steiner/Benesch, Michael 2010: The questionnaire: From the research idea to SPSS/PASW analysis. Stuttgart: UTB Verlag.
- Schnell, Rainer/Hill, Paul B./Esser, Elke 1999: Methods of empirical social research. Munich: Oldenbourg.
- Treiman, Donald J. 2009: Quantitative data analysis: doing social research to test ideas / Donald J. Treiman. 1st ed., San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
3. Qualitative methods
- Blatter, Joachim K./Janning, Frank/Wagemann, Claudius 2007: Qualitative policy analysis. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Bohnsack, Ralf 2003: Reconstructive Social Research. Introduction to the methodology and practice of qualitative research. Opladen: Leske and Budrich.
- Bryant, Antony et al. 2008: The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory. Los Angeles [et al:] Sage Publications.
- Corbin, Juliet/L.Strauss, Anselm L. 2010: Grounded Theory: Fundamentals of Qualitative Social Research. Weinheim: Beltz.
- Creswell, John W. 1997: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions. Los Angeles [et al:] Sage Publications.
- Flick, Uwe 2007: Qualitative Research. Theory, Methods, Application in Psychology and Social Sciences. Rowohlt.
- Flick, Uwe/Kardoff, Ernst von/Keupp, Heiner/Rosenstiel, Lutz von/Wolff, Stephan 1995: Handbuch Qualitative Sozialforschung. Foundations, concepts, methods and applications. Weinheim: Beltz.
- Gläser, Jochen/Laudel, Grit 2010: Expert interviews and qualitative content analysis: as instruments of reconstructive research.
- Helfferich, Cornelia 2010: The quality of qualitative data: Manual for conducting qualitative interviews. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Kelle, Udo/Kluge, Susann 2009: Vom Einzelfall zum Typus: Fallvergleich und Fallkontrastierung in der qualitativen Sozialforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Kuckartz, Udo (2009): Introduction to computer-assisted analysis of qualitative data. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Kuckartz, Udo/Dresing, Thorsten/Rädiker, Stefan/Stefer, Claus (2008): Qualitative evaluation: getting started in practice. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Kuckartz, Udo/Ebert, Thomas/Rädiker, Stefan/Stefer, Claus (2008): Evaluation Online: Internet-based surveys in practice. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Lamnek, Siegfried 2010: Qualitative Social Research: Textbook. Beltz/Psychologie Verlags Union.
- Mayring, Philipp 2002: Introduction to qualitative social research. Weinheim: Beltz.
- Mayring, Philipp 2010: Qualitative content analysis. Basics and techniques. Deutscher Studien Verlag.
- Steinke, Ines 1999: Criteria of qualitative research. Approaches to the evaluation of qualitative-empirical social research. Juventa.
- Strauss, Anselm L. 2007: Grundlagen qualitativer Sozialforschung: Datenanalyse und Theoriebildung in der empirischen soziologischen Forschung. Stuttgart: UTB Verlag.
- Strübing, Jörg 2008: Grounded Theory: On the social-theoretical and epistemological foundation of the process of empirically based theory formation. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Yin, Robert K. 2008: Case Study Research: Design and Methods: 5 (Applied Social Research Methods). Los Angeles [et al:] Sage Publications.
4. Methods of analysis
- Backhaus, Klaus/Erichson, Bernd/Plinke, Wulff/Weiber, Rolf 2008: Multivariate Analysis Methods: An Application-Oriented Introduction. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
- Behnke, Joachim /Gschwend, Thomas /Schindler, Delia /Schnapp, Kai-Uwe 2006: Methoden der Politikwissenschaft Neuere qualitative und quantitative Analyseverfahren. 1. Edition, Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Bickel, Robert 2007: Multilevel Analysis for applied research. It's Just Regression! New York, London: The Guilford Press.
- Blum, Sonja/Schubert, Klaus 2008: Politikfeldanalyse. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Flick, Uwe 2011: Triangulation: An Introduction. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Harkness, Janet A. (ed.) 2010: Survey methods in multinational, multiregional, and multicultural contexts. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Heeringa, Steven/West, Brady T./Berglund, Patricia A. 2010: Applied survey data analysis . Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall.
- Jackob, Nikolaus/Schoen, Harald/Zerback, Thomas (eds.) 2008: Sozialforschung im Internet: Methodology and practice of online surveys. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Jansen, Dorothea 2006: Introduction to network analysis. Foundations, methods, applications. 3. 2nd edition. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Kromrey, Helmut 2006: Empirical social research. Models and methods of data acquisition and data analysis. 11. 2nd edition. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius.
- Langer, Wolfgang 2009: Multi-level analysis. An introduction to research and practice. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Schneider, Volker et al. 2009: Politiknetzwerke: Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Schneider, Volker/Janning, Frank 2006: Politikfeldanalyse: Akteure, Diskurse und Netzwerke in der öffentlichen Politik. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Taddicken, Monika 2008: Methodological effects in web surveys: Limitations of data quality due to a "reduced communication medium". Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag.
- Trappmann, Mark 2009: Structural analysis of social networks: concepts, models, methods. 2. Ed. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Weichbold, Martin 2009: Survey research: challenges and limits. 1. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Austrian Journal of Sociology: Special Issue 9.
- Welker, Martin/Wünsch, Carsten (eds.) 2010: Online content analysis. Research object Internet. Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag.
5. Empirical psephology
- Duch, Raymond M./ Stevenson, Randolph T. 2008: The economic vote: how political and economic institutions condition election results. 1. publ. cambridge [et al:] Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Falter, Jürgen W./Schoen, Harald (eds.) 2006: Handbuch Wahlforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Gächter, Otmar: Issue voting in Switzerland 2008: An analysis of voter share shifts caused by issue attitudes. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.
- Klein, Markus 2001: Voting as an act of expressive preference revelation: an application of conjoint analysis to the Hamburg parliamentary election of 21 September 1997. Frankfurt am Main et al: Lang.
- Rattinger, Hans et al. 2011: Between boredom and extremes: The 2009 Bundestag Elections. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Smith, Alastair 2009: Election timing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Zittel, Thomas 2010: More responsiveness through new digital media? : The electronic voter communication of members of parliament in Germany, Sweden and the USA. 1st ed: Nomos.
6. Periodicals, journals and series
- FQS - Forum qualitative social research
- Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology
- Political Analysis
- Public Opinion Quarterly
- Qualitative Research Methods Series, Newbury Park: Sage
- Quality and Quantity
- Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Newbury Park: Sage
- Sociological Methods and Research
- ZUMA News and ZA Information