MA Research Design: Quantitative

Dozent/in	Dr. phil. Resul Umit Yazici
Veranstaltungsart	Masterseminar
Code	FS201271
Semester	Frühjahrssemester 2020
Durchführender Fachbereich	Politikwissenschaft
Studienstufe	Bachelor Master
Termin/e	wöchentlich (Mo), ab 17.02.2020, 16:15 - 18:00 Uhr, 4.B01
Umfang	2 Semesterwochenstunden
Turnus	wöchentlich
Inhalt	The course will cover the fundamentals of research design in the field of quantitative political science. Students will also learn about a variety of approaches that contemporary political scientists use to answer some of the most pressing questions of our time. By the end of the course, students will be able to: (1) distinguish scientific research from other methods of knowing and the good research from the bad, (2) identify common research designs used in political science, (3) define a research problem, and (4) develop an appropriate research design for that problem. As such, the course will be useful for any student looking to develop skills to evaluate scientific research in quantitative political science. Moreover, it will be useful particularly for students who are, or soon will be, working on their Bachelor or Master thesis. They will find practical answers regarding question formulation, hypothesis development, and choice of technique in this course. They will also receive feedback on their research design, which they might want to use for their thesis.
Sprache	Englisch
Anmeldung	Limited number of participants with preference for students from 3rd semester onwar.
Abschlussform / Credits	Various small assignments, a research-design paper, and a final exam / 4 Credits
Hinweise	Studienschwerpunkte: Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft und Schweizer Politik/Politische Theorie/Internationale Beziehungen
Kontakt	resul.umit@unilu.ch
Material	Wird auf der Online-Plattform OLAT zur Verfügung gestellt.
Literatur	Required: - Dimiter Toshkov. Research Design in Political Science. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Recommended: - Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton University Press, 1994. - Kosuke Imai. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press, 2017. - Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Princeton University Press, 2008.