博主按：因为《研究设计》对同学们的基础知识有一些起码的要求，以下是这门课程的一些重要书目。想选这门课的同学请至少把头四个读物大概溜一遍。所有蓝色标记的书，应该都在"共享资料"(http://iask.sina.com.cn)上可以找到。

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Required Text

1.      Henry Brady & David Collier. 2004. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield.

2.      Michael Coppedge, 2012. Democratization and Research Methods. Cambridge

Strongly Recommended

1.      Shiping Tang. 2011. Foundational Paradigms of Social Sciences. Philosophy of the Social Sciences (downloadable from my website).

2.      Daniel Steel. 2008. Across Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Sciences. Oxford.

Recommended

1.      John Gerring. 2006. Case Study Research: Principles and Practices. Cambridge.

2.      John Gerring, 2011. Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework. Cambridge.

3.      Alexander George and Andrew Bennett, 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development. MIT Press.

4.      Gary Goertz. 2006. Social Science Concepts. Princeton.

5.      Robert Keohane, Gary King, Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiries: Scientific Inferences in Qualitative Research. Princeton.

6.      Charles Ragin. 2000. Fuzzy Set Social Sciences. University of Chicago Press.

7.      Charles Ragin. 2008. Redesign Social Inquiries: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago.

8.      Gary Goertz and James Mahoney 2012. A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences. Princeton.

9.      Robert Bates et al. 1998. Analytical Narratives. Princeton.

Highly Relevant

1.      James Coleman. 1990. Foundations of Social Theory. Harvard.

2.      Randall Collins. 1994. Four Sociological Traditions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

3.      Dani Rodrik ed., 2003. In Search of prosperity: Analytical Narratives on Economic Growth. Princeton.

4.      Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. 2011. The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Sciences and its Implications for the Study of World Politics. London: Routledge.

5.      Kenneth A. Waltz. 1979. Theory of International Politics. Addison.

6.      Alexander Wendt. 1999. Social Theory of international Politics. Cambridge.

7.      Theda Skocpol. 1979. State and Revolution. Cambridge.

8.      John R. Bowen and Roger Petersen, eds. 1999. Critical Comparison in Politics and Culture. Cambridge.

附上一个第一节课的必读材料

1.      John Gerring. 2005. “Causation: A Unified Framework for the Social Sciences.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 17(2): 163–198. (A more detailed discussion is found in Gerring 2010, part III, “Causation”)