Chapter 1 Doing Research -- chapter 2 Political Theories and Research Topics -- chapter 3 Importance of Dimensional Thinking -- chapter 4 Problems of Measurement: Accuracy -- chapter 5 Problems of Measurement: Precision -- chapter 6 Causal Thinking and Design of Research -- chapter 7 Selection of Observations for Study -- chapter 8 Introduction to Statistics: Measuring Relationships for Interval Data -- chapter 9 Introduction to Statistics: Further Topics on Measurement of Relationships -- chapter 10 Introduction to Statistics: Inference, or How to Gamble on Your Research.