Undergraduate Research-Methods Training in Political Science: A Comparative Perspective.
A comparative study examined the structure of the undergraduate political science curriculum in the U.S. and in seven other countries. Data were obtained from a representative survey of 200 political science programs in the U.S. to determine the requirements for quantitative methods, research metho...
| Publicado en: | PS: Political Science & Politics Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 121 - 126 |
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Cambridge University Press
January 2010
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