Explores the nature of institutions and institutional change.

Fifth edition of this text on lecturing technique which outlines the factors which can make lecturing effective. Details the factors affecting the learning of information, considers the techniques of lecturing and shows how to make specific points, use handouts and obtain feedback. Also discusses alternatives and gives advice on how to apply them

This volume demonstrates how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is based. The authors develop a series of guidelines, suggestions and practical advice about how to write useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings.

Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, this book explores issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research.

A guide to doing and evaluating work in anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology.

Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from the mass media and convert it into political preferences, and applies it to both domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, presidential approval, and voting behaviour.