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Introduction to Empirical Methods for the Social Sciences | | |
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eLearning[Provide new moodle course WITH GROUPS in current semester] |
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Angaben zur Abhaltung |
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* What is political science? * Measurements, variables, probabilities and distributions * Causality and causal inference * Survey, field, and natural experiments * Analyzing observational data * Introduction to regression analysis * Causal process tracing, case selection and other key issues in case study research * Where data come from - survey research * Uses and design of survey questionnaires * Sampling for surveys and field research * Non-positivist epistemology |
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No other module is prerequisited; interest in a wide variety of political topics, unbashfully approach of active learning, interest in empirical methods. |
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Upon completion of the module, students are able to: * understand the major analytical methods for the empirical study of politics, * understand how use statistical tools for these methods, * apply these methods to their own research, * eveluate methods in existing research across the social sciences. |
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Für die Anmeldung zur Teilnahme müssen Sie sich in TUMonline als Studierende/r identifizieren. |
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Zusatzinformationen |
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Readings will include: Pollock, Philip H. The Essentials of Political Analysis. 4th edition. (Los Angeles: Sage, 2012) und Bartels, Larry M. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Detailed reading list to be distributed at the first meeting of the class. |
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