Empirical legal research : a primer /

"This exciting textbook introduces the basic tenets and methodologies of empirical legal research. Explaining how to initiate and conduct empirical research projects, how to evaluate the methods used and how to analyze and engage with the results, Kees van den Bos provides a vibrant and reliabl...

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Main Author: Bos, Kees van den, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]
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505 0 |a Why empirical legal research -- Research goals, problems, and questions -- Interviews -- Surveys -- Experiments -- Data analyses -- Reporting results -- What next 
505 0 0 |a Machine generated contents note:  |g pt. I  |t START: MOVING FROM CONTENT TO EMPIRICAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS --  |g 1  |t Why empirical legal research --  |g 1.1.  |t Introduction --  |g 1.2.  |t What is empirical legal research? --  |g 1.3.  |t Why empirical legal research? --  |g 1.4.  |t Law in action --  |g 1.5.  |t Integrative account --  |g 1.6.  |t What you will find in this book --  |g 2.  |t Research goals, problems, and questions --  |g 2.1.  |t Introduction --  |g 2.2.  |t Research goals --  |g 2.3.  |t Research problems --  |g 2.4.  |t Research questions --  |g 2.5.  |t Sandglass model --  |g 2.6.  |t Iterative process --  |g pt. II  |t RESEARCH METHODS: STUDYING EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS --  |g 3.  |t Interviews --  |g 3.1.  |t Introduction --  |g 3.2.  |t List of topics --  |g 3.3.  |t Closed questions --  |g 3.4.  |t How to conduct interviews --  |g 3.5.  |t Grounded theory --  |g 3.6.  |t Subjective quality --  |g 4.  |t Surveys --  |g 4.1.  |t Introduction --  |g 4.2.  |t Construction of questionnaire items --  |g 4.3.  |t Valid and reliable insights --  |g 4.4.  |t Population and power of sample --  |g 4.5.  |t Looking for associations --  |g 4.6.  |t Self-reports --  |g 5.  |t Experiments --  |g 5.1.  |t Introduction --  |g 5.2.  |t Field experiments --  |g 5.3.  |t Scenario experiments --  |g 5.4.  |t Laboratory experiments --  |g 5.5.  |t Getting the design right --  |g 5.6.  |t Ethical concerns --  |g pt. III  |t INTERPRETING EMPIRICAL DATA: MOVING BACK TO CONTENT --  |g 6.  |t Data analyses --  |g 6.1.  |t Getting a grip --  |g 6.2.  |t Coding qualitative data --  |g 6.3.  |t Beginning quantitative analyses --  |g 6.4.  |t Scale construction and underlying factors --  |g 6.5.  |t Testing for differences between groups --  |g 6.6.  |t Testing for associations between variables --  |g 7.  |t Reporting results --  |g 7.1.  |t Writing the empirical research report --  |g 7.2.  |t Introduction --  |g 7.3.  |t Method --  |g 7.4.  |t Results --  |g 7.5.  |t Discussion --  |g 7.6.  |t Sandglass model revisited --  |g 8.  |t What next --  |g 8.1.  |t Conclusions and reflections --  |g 8.2.  |t Program of research --  |g 8.3.  |t Other empirical methods and types of analysis --  |g 8.4.  |t Limitations of empirical research --  |g 8.5.  |t Think! --  |g 8.6.  |t Good luck!. 
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