Is there a dilemma in political related research between the qualitative vs. the quantitative?

Political related research is a threestage process. Scientists are in charge of an epistemological phase where the object of its study is constructed. During a theoretical-logical phase, they must also clearly establish their research problems and formulate their hypotheses. And finally, there is a...

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Autor: Valdés Vega, María Eugenia
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:México
Recursos:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA
Repositorio:Iztapalapa. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistaiztapalapa.izt.uam.mx:article/390
Acesso em linha:https://revistaiztapalapa.izt.uam.mx/index.php/izt/article/view/390
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:quantitative
qualitative
political research
cuantitativo
cualitativo
investigación política
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Resumo:Political related research is a threestage process. Scientists are in charge of an epistemological phase where the object of its study is constructed. During a theoretical-logical phase, they must also clearly establish their research problems and formulate their hypotheses. And finally, there is a phase where different techniques are applied in order to obtain the information they require. This paper argues that it is during the first stage that defining whether it will be a qualitative or a quantitative analysis is supposed to be determined, but that pretending to choose only one of them is a false dilemma, for political science requires of both of them