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This page includes web resources (and some other references and sources) relevant to my academic research for easy access. It will be periodically updated with more resources and categories.
The resources are within the following categories:
Fragile and Conflict-Affected States; International Development and Aid-Effectiveness; Social Capital, Social Network Analysis; Fieldwork; and Qualitative Methods.
Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS)
- Fund for Peace Failed States Index: http://fundforpeace.org/fsi/
- Brookings Institution. “Index of State Weakness in the Developing World,” n.d. http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2008/02/weak-states-index.
- Center for Systemic Peace State Fragility Index: http://www.systemicpeace.org/
International Development and Aid-Effectiveness
- Aid-Effectiveness World Bank Data: https://data.worldbank.org/topic/aid-effectiveness
- Human Development Index: http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi
- Aid Data: Open Data for International Development: http://aiddata.org/tracking-underreported-financial-flows
- Monitoring and Evaluation News: http://mande.co.uk/
Social Capital Research
- Social Capital Research: https://www.socialcapitalresearch.com/
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Halpern, David. Social Capital. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity, 2005.
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Grootaert, Christiaan, Thierry Van Bastelaer, and World Bank, eds. Understanding and Measuring Social Capital: A Multidisciplinary Tool for Practitioners. Directions in Development (Washington, DC). Washington, DC: World Bank, 2002.
Social Network Analysis
- Hanneman, Robert A. and Mark Riddle. Introduction to social network methods. Riverside, CA: University of California, 2005: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/
- Strategy Development: Social Network Analysis: https://www.odi.org/publications/5210-social-network-analysis-networks
- Davies, Rick. “Developing Network Models of Development projects: An Introduction,” 2006: http://www.mande.co.uk/networkmodels.htm.
- Borgatti, Stephen P., Martin G. Everett, and Jeffrey C. Johnson. Analyzing Social Networks. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage, 2013.
- Prell, Christina. Social Network Analysis: History, Theory & Methodology. Los Angeles ; London: SAGE, 2012.
- Scott, John, and Peter J. Carrington, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE, 2011.
- Bellotti, Elisa. Qualitative Networks: Mixing Methods in Social Research. Social Research Today. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015.
- Victor, Jennifer Nicoll, Alexander H Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Fieldwork and Research Design in Social Sciences
- Agar, Michael. The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography. 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1996.
- Maxwell, Joseph Alex. Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach. 3rd ed. Applied Social Research Methods, v. 41. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2013.
- Kapiszewski, Diana, Lauren M. MacLean, and Benjamin Lelan Read. Field Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles. Strategies for Social Inquiry. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Qualitative Methods
- Curini, Luigi and Robert Franzese. The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. 2020.
- Saldaña, Johnny. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. 3E [Third edition]. Los Angeles ; London: SAGE, 2016.
- Maxwell, Joseph A. Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach. SAGE Publications. 2013.