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| Christopher Williams |
| © 2012 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd |
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| Paperback | ISBN: | 9780857024299 | £26.99 | |
| Hardcover | ISBN: | 9780857024282 | £85.00 | |
| Ebook | ISBN: | 9781446267967 |
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| PART ONE: INTRODUCTION | |
| Why Research Powerful People? | |
| Who the Book Is for | |
| Key Concepts | |
| How the Book Was Researched | |
| A Quick Guide to the Book | |
| The Chapters | |
| PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING | |
| Origins | |
| Anthropology | |
| History | |
| Philosophy | |
| Up-System Research | |
| Theory | |
| Power | |
| Elites | |
| Leadership | |
| Populace | |
| Critique | |
| PART THREE: DOING | |
| Literature | |
| Searching | |
| Reviewing | |
| Topics | |
| Planning | |
| Design | |
| Focus | |
| Problematization | |
| Definitions | |
| Access | |
| Integrity | |
| Frameworks | |
| Direct | |
| Indirect | |
| Networks and Systems | |
| Data | |
| Sources | |
| Selection | |
| Testing | |
| PART FOUR: USING | |
| Analysis | |
| Comparison | |
| Causation | |
| Consistency | |
| Contra-Arguments | |
| Common Sense | |
| Critical Process Analysis | |
| Conceptualization | |
| Outcomes | |
| Reporting | |
| Presentation | |
| Influencing Change | |
| Appendices - Tools and Templates for Research Planning | |
| Mapping a case study within a conceptual framework | |
| Linking the elements of a research study | |
| A basic research design | |
| A basic Gantt chart | |
| Achieving focus at, or across, specific levels | |
| Systematic links from topic to data collection | |
| Making distinctions between elite and leadership roles | |
| Explaining the focus of a study | |
| Standard research frameworks | |
| Relating basic questions to frameworks and information sources | |
| Comparing journalistic and academic approaches to access | |
| Instruments to implement power | |
| The structure of a press release | |
| Glossary | |
| Internet Sources | |
| References |
