Doing Research

Daniel Druckman is a 2004-2005 visiting Professor at the University of Queensland′s Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Brisbane, Australia. He is the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he has coordinated the doctoral program at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR).  He is also a member of the faculty at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey and has held senior positions at several consulting firms, as well as at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and was awarded a best-in-field prize from the American Institutes for Research for his doctoral dissertation. He has published widely (approximately 150 publications, including 12 authored or edited books) on such topics as negotiating behavior, nationalism and group identity, human performance, peacekeeping, political stability, nonverbal communication, and methodology (including simulation). He serves as a board member or associate editor for eight Journals. He received the 1995 Otto Klineberg award for Intercultural and International Relations from the Society for the Psychological Analysis of Social Issues for his work on nationalism, a Teaching Excellence award in 1998 from George Mason University, and an award for the outstanding article published in 2001 from the International Association for Conflict Management. He is the recipient of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement award from the International Association for Conflict Management.

Doing Research is a gem. It provides multiple research methods and models focusing on conflict analysis and resolution that can be used by any student in a variety of social science disciplines or fields of study. I wish this book had been written 20 years ago.

• PrefacePrologueDoing Research on ConflictPart IntroductionWhy Do Research?Research Foundations: Debating PointsResearch Motivations, Assumptions, QuestionsSome Contributions from Research on ConflictDiscussion QuestionsGetting Started to Do ResearchWhere Ideas Come FromChoosing a Research TopicAlternative Methodological ApproachesChoosing an ApproachDiscussion QuestionsPerforming ExperimentsPart IntroductionDesigning Experiments and Conducting SimulationsThe Experimental Method: An OverviewInternal and External ValidityExperimental Designs: Examples from CA&RSummaryDiscussion QuestionsEvaluating Data from Experiments: Methods of AnalysisEssential Ideas of Statistical AnalysisMeasurement and Statistical Power: Two-Group DesignsMeasurement and Power: Three-Group DesignsFactorial DesignsRepeated Measures and Other ANOVA DesignsSummaryDiscussion QuestionsDesigning and Conducting SurveysPart IntroductionSurvey Research OverviewSurvey Research DesignMeasurementSamplingData CollectionEthicsConclusionsDiscussion QuestionsDoing Case-Based ResearchThe Case-Study Method: An OverviewEnhanced-Case and Time Series AnalysesTheory and the Case StudyTime-Series Designs and AnalysesSystematic Expert JudgmentQualitative Time-Series AnalysisSummaryComparative Case Study ApproachesFocussed Case ComparisonsAggregate Case ComparisonsDiscussion QuestionsWriting EthnographiesPart IntroductionEthnographic Methods What is Ethnography?Why do Ethnography?The Logic of EthnographyMaking Sense of Other WorldsTaking NotesThe Ethnographer′s Tool KitDiscussion QuestionsAnalyzing Documents: Texts and Process AnalysisPart IntroductionContent AnalysisOverview of the ApproachTechnical Issues for the Content AnalystContent Analysis ApplicationsDiscussion QuestionsNarrative Analysis Overview of the ApproachNarrative TheoryAnalysis of NarrativesDiscussion QuestionsEvaluating Interventions and Applying ResearchPart IntroductionEvaluation ResearchChallenges of EvaluationTasks in an Evaluation ProjectEvaluation IssuesEvaluating Interventions: An Example of a FrameworkDiscussion QuestionsResearch for Action and ConsultingBasic and Applied ResearchAction ResearchResearch ConsultingDiscussion QuestionsConcluding Part IntroductionFrom Philosophies to Research Methods: The Value of Doing Research in Conflict Analysis and ResolutionDoing Research: Philosophies and MethodologiesResearch IssuesSummary of Methods CoveredComparing the Methodologies: Experiments, Surveys, and Case StudiesTypes of DataWrapping UpEpilogueReferences