Sage Publications Quantitative Research in Political Science (SAGE Library of Political Science)

This four volume Major Work brings together the key articles that laid the foundations, extended and deepened the techniques, and demonstrated the application of the empirical-methodological toolbox of modern positive political science. The fundamental challenges of positive, empirical political science are many, and this collection helps to untangle and delineate the various issues by structuring the contents into four thematic sections:   ·         Multicausality ·         Heterogeneity & Context Conditionality ·         Temporal & Unit (Inter)Dependence ·         Ubiquitous Endogeneity   The rationale behind the collection’s structure and selection of contents is carefully laid out and explained in an illuminating introductory chapter, written by esteemed editor Robert J. Franzese.     About the Author Robert (Rob) J. Franzese, Jr. (Ph.D. Government 1996, A.M. Economics 1995, Harvard University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a past President of The Society for Political Methodology. Much of his recent research, collaborative with Jude Hays, focuses on spatial-econometric models of interdependence, especially on the specification, estimation, and interpretation of empirical models that  respect the profound, and distinct, implications of spatially distributed exposure, of spatial contagion/spillovers, and of endogenous formation of the connections between spatial units by which their exposure may be correlated and/or their outcomes contagious. Their several articles and chapters on these topics appear in methodological and substantive journals and volumes in political science, statistics, and economics. Beyond spatial-econometric models of interdependence, on which the two are also currently completing a book, Franzese’s research focuses on other areas of empirical methodology, most notably methods appropriate for complex context-conditionality and for time-series-cross-section data, and substantively on comparative & international political economy. Combined, these research agendas have yielded 3 books and 28 articles & chapters in journals/volumes across these three disciplines (and five languages: English, Japanese, Italian, German, & Chinese), winning five best-paper awards, three for work in political methodology and two for work in comparative politics/political-economy.