Verba, Sidney

The civic culture : political attitudes and democracy in five nations by Gabriel A Almond ( Book )
62 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,607 libraries worldwide
This cross-national study focused upon the respondents' basic political attitudes with emphasis upon political partisanship, political socialization, and attitudes toward specific institutions as well as the political system and culture as a whole. Specific information was collected on respondents' political awareness and feelings of political efficacy, feelings toward the bureaucracy, police, political parties, campaigning, and different levels of government, and such institutions as the school, family, and place of work. The number and types of organizations to which the respondents belonged were recorded, as well as standard demographic information. The information was obtained in cross-national surveys conducted in five countries -- Germany, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Information was obtained from 955 respondents in Germany, from 995 respondents in Italy, from 1,008 respondents weighted to 1,295 in Mexico, from 963 respondents in the United Kingdom, and from 970 respondents in the United States. Information is recorded for each respondent in the five surveys in 166 variables. Interviewing took place during June and July 1959, in all countries except the United States, where it took place in March 1960.

The changing American voter by Norman H Nie ( Book )
22 editions published between 1976 and 1999 in English and held by 1,454 libraries worldwide

Small groups and political behavior; a study of leadership by Sidney Verba ( Book )
21 editions published between 1961 and 1972 in English and held by 1,175 libraries worldwide

Political culture and political development by Lucian W Pye ( Book )
4 editions published between 1965 and 1972 in English and held by 1,020 libraries worldwide

Equality in America : the view from the top by Sidney Verba ( Book )
4 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 1,013 libraries worldwide

Participation and political equality : a seven-nation comparison by Sidney Verba ( Book )
18 editions published between 1978 and 1996 in English and held by 952 libraries worldwide

Participation in America: political democracy and social equality by Sidney Verba ( Book )
13 editions published between 1972 and 1991 in English and held by 886 libraries worldwide

Designing social inquiry : scientific inference in qualitative research by Gary King ( Book )
5 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 833 libraries worldwide
While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse academic traditions, have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. Their book demonstrates that the same logic of inference underlies both good quantitative and good qualitative research designs, and their approach applies equally to each. Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, the authors explore issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research. Among the specific topics they address are interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. Mathematical notation is occasionally used to clarify concepts, but no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics is assumed. The unified logic of inference that this book explicates will be enormously useful to qualitative researchers of all traditions and substantive fields. -- Publisher description.

Voice and equality : civic voluntarism in American politics by Sidney Verba ( Book )
9 editions published between 1995 and 2002 in English and held by 792 libraries worldwide
This book confirms Alexis de Tocqueville's idea, dating back a century and a half, that American democracy is rooted in civil society. Citizens' involvement in family, school, work, voluntary associations, and religion has a significant impact on their participation as voters, campaigners, donors, community activists, and protesters. The authors focus on the central issues of involvement: how people come to be active and the issues they raise when they do. They find fascinating differences along cultural lines, among African-Americans, Latinos, and Anglo-Whites, as well as between the religiously observant and the secular. They observe family activism moving from generation to generation, and they look into the special role of issues that elicit involvement, including abortion rights and social welfare.

The international system, theoretical essays ( Book )
21 editions published between 1961 and 2003 in English and held by 788 libraries worldwide