Students and scholars specialising in the social sciences, especially political science, are introduced to a fresh way of thinking on how to model and test their research questions. Placing emphasis on unifying formal and empirical tools, a framework for methodological unification (EITM) is presented through a variety of interdisciplinary examples.

Provides a framework to demonstrate how to unify formal, theoretical and empirical analysis through various interdisciplinary examples.

'Too often in the social sciences, formal theories and empirical studies have occupied separate worlds. This book is a masterful overview of a more modern approach, demonstrating how empirical implications can be rigorously derived from theoretical models. The new framework not only lets researchers test models more reliably, but more importantly, it directs them to previously unsuspected empirical findings that conventional empirical analysis will not uncover. This is a volume that every empirical researcher will want to read.' Christopher H. Achen, Princeton University