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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Key to abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• Rationale for a focus on research design
• Theoretical research and policy research
• A classification of study types
• Qualitative and quantitive research
• The presentation of study types
• Choices, strategies and practicalities
• Part 1 Types of research study
• 2 Research reviews, meta-analysis and secondary analysis
• Research reviews
• Meta-analysis
• Secondary analysis
• Population census studies
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Practical considerations
• 3 Qualitative research
• Depth interviews and focus groups
• Some illustrative examples
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Overlaps and combinations
• Practical considerations
• 4 Administrative records and documents
• Varieties of records-based research
• The nature and quality of data from administrative records
• Computerisation of administrative records
• Record linkage
• Documentary analysis
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Overlaps and combinations
• Practical considerations
• 5 Case studies
• Individual case histories
• Community studies
• Case studies of social groups
• Case studies of organisations and institutions
• Case studies of events, roles and relationships
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Overlaps and combinations
• Practical considerations
• 6 Ad hoc sample surveys
• Surveys of individuals
• Survey research on roles and relationships
• Survey research on organisations
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Overlaps and combinations
• Practical considerations
• 7 Regular surveys
• Gross and net change
• Types of regular survey
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Overlaps and combinations
• Practical considerations
• 8 Longitudinal studies
• Multi-purpose studies: panels and cohorts
• Studies focused on specific groups or issues
• Inter-generational studies
• Retrospective studies
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Overlaps and combinations
• Practical considerations
• 9 Experimental social research
• Experiments in real-life settings
• Natural experiments
• Experiments in artificial settings
• Simulation and modelling
• Cross-national comparative studies
• Overlaps and combinations
• Practical considerations
• Part 2 Putting together a research design
• 10 Choices and combinations
• Student dissertations and theses
• Trading down to a cheaper design
• Trading up to a more complex design
• Simultaneous replication
• Units of analysis: time, space and social units
• 11 Research programmes
• Strategies for research programmes
• Focused sampling
• Selection effects
• Multiple triangulation
• Conflicting interests
• Multi-disciplinary research
• Programme organisation and management
• Presentation of reports
• 12 Organisation and funding of research
• Practical aspects of research design
• Funding
• Organisation and management of research work
• Issues in research management
• 13 Cross-national comparative studies
• The logic of comparative analysis
• Organisation of research work
• Funding and practical problems
• 14 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Author index
• Subject index