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Making Social Sciences More Scientific
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Making Social Sciences
More Scientific
The Need for Predictive Models
Rein Taagepera
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Great Clarendon Street, Oxford
OX2
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Taagepera, Rein.
Making social sciences more scientific : the need for predictive
models / Rein Taagepera.
p. cm.
ISBN 978–0–19–953466–1
1. Social sciences–Research. 2. Social sciences–Fieldwork.
3. Social sciences–Methodology. 4. Sociology–Methodology.
5. Sociology–Research. I. Title.
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