POS 3703: Research Methods in Political
Science
Spring 2020
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Development
of the Political Science Discipline:
American
Political Science Association
American Political
Science Association Sections
APSA
conference home page
Views of the American
politics subfield
APSA's
description of the possible subfields in political science
APSR
and the Vietnam War
British
Political Science Association
Perestroika
movement in political science
Russian,
East European and Eurasian Center at UI
Sovereignty is a
basic concept in of nation-states
Break
away states of the former Soviet Union
Map of African decolonization
The Tragedy of behavioral
political science
Small example of
the policy
relevance of political science
Fun Stuff
How political science
really operates
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and Stimpy discussion of regression
I want an A
You have two cows
Daily
Show
Decline
World
leaders
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Methods
and Research Design:
The Karl
Popper home page has a number of his influential writings
Thomas
Kuhn has also had a profound influence on the field of philosophy of science
Click here for a good description
of Almond and Verba's classic work The
Civic Culture
Experimental
research in political science
Here is a discussion
of Easton's political
system
Variables
Regression analysis
Information on case
studies
Click here for
a APSR article on case study research
Discussion of
most similar and most similar research designs
Examples of most
similar research design
ANOVA
Religion
and conflict
Revision
of data
Operationalization
of variables
Magaloni
paper
Elgie
paper
Ethics
in research at FAU
Discussion concerning
rational choice theory
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discussion of mean, median
and mode
Click here for a use of a median
calculation
Click here for a good, general
discussion of levels
of measurement
Click here for an example of a
nominal
level variable
Click here for an example of an
ordinal level variable
Click here for an example of a
ratio
level variable
Click here for some examples of
literature reviews (1,
2, 3)
Click here for a discussion of
frequency distributions
(several
sites)
Click here for a discussion of
standardized beta
coefficients
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Data
and Reference Resources:
The Society
for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section of the American
Political Science Association have a wonderful home page on research and methodology
issues
The ICPSR
maintains the world's largest data archive
Click here for some of the data
used by David Kinsella
The Comparative
Study of Electoral Systems is a program of cross-national research among
election studies conducted in over fifty countries
Here is some basic information
of election results
The Lijphart
elections archive contains election results
Click here for the Gallup
Organization
The National
Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of Romania has the 1998 Yearbook
available
Click here for additional Romanian
county-level data
The University
of Essex maintains an electronic list of election laws and results from
East European countries
The UN
maintains a list of basic social indicators
The World
Bank maintains a list of basic social indicators by category and country
The IMF
country index has economic information on all IMF members
Eurobarometer
public opinion polling
Transparency
International monitors corruption world-wide
Click here for the TI
Index
The Freedom
House country ratings are available
Click here for the CIA
Fact Book
APSA
has posted many of the papers presented at the annual meeting
Georgetown University maintains
a Political Database of
the Americas
Here is a wonderful collection
of working
papers
Here is my revised APSA list of
journals
Click here for World
Trade Organization information, including trade rulings
The University of Richmond maintains
an excellent constitution
data base
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Information
on Political Science:
Information on the American
Political Science Association (APSA)
Click here for the APSA Guide
to Professional Ethics in Political Science
Click here to see my list of political
science journals (revised from the APSA list)
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