PART ONE: COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGY/Comparative Methodology and Statistics in Political Science/The Comparative Approach/Theory and Method/Meaning and Use of the Comparative Method/Research Design/PART TWO: STATISTICS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE/Concepts Cases Data and Measurement/Explorative and Descriptive Statistics/Multivariate Analysis and Causal Inference/PART THREE: DOING POLITICAL RESEARCH/How Problems Arise/How Decisions Are Made/How Problems Are Solved