Designed to supplement core Research Methods textbooks, RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: USING MICROCASEA® EXPLORIT provides students with award-winning software to analyze and critically evaluate real data. This workbook includes a Windows version of MicroCaseA® ExplorIt, a user-friendly program that makes it easy for students to manipulate and learn from actual data without getting bogged down in complicated statistical software. Over two dozen research-quality data files are included in this package, along with fourteen exercise worksheets (one per chapter) that let students see the real impact of the concepts they study. The students are then walked through the entire research process, giving them hands-on experience in research methods.