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Robert Caro on the research process

I have mentioned in a previous post, and may well mention again, Robert Caro’s excellent little book on the research process, Working: researching, interviewing, writing. Caro, who is most famous for his multi-volume biography of US President Lyndon Johnson, draws … Continue reading

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The Conservative Party and immigration: a lesson in bad survey design

For some years as part of our undergraduate research methods teaching we have provided students with a mock-questionnaire which has been deliberately designed to enable them to identify the various potential flaws in survey design, and it is hoped, avoid them when they come … Continue reading

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