Affiliation:
1. Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2. Political Science, University of Minnesota
Abstract
Abstract
The core components of research design, as set out by King, Keohane, and Verba (1994), have remained largely unchanged for two decades. Yet in recent years more attention has been paid to the ways that individual identity shapes the steps of research design and therefore the final research product. This chapter discusses the ways this occurs and provides some explanations for why they occur. It concludes by discussing why failing to recognize and accommodate how individual identity shapes the research design process—in other words, enforcing homogeneity—can be bad for researchers as well as for political science as a whole.