Steven D. Roper

Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant Research Methods Consulting

Sample Course Information for Faculty Developing Research Methods Courses:
 

  • The sample syllabus is available here (in pdf format). Click here to download a free copy of the reader 
  • Click here for the outline of a sample research paper
  • Click here for sample evaluation form
  • Click here for an online version of the APSA style manual
  • PROceedings has available papers that were delivered at APSA meetings
  • Assignment 1 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 2 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 3 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 4 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 5 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 6 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 7 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 8 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 9 is available here (in pdf format)
  • Assignment 10 is available here (in pdf format)

    • Information on Political Science:

  • Information on the American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • Click here for back copies of the Newsletter of the Section in Comparative Politics of the APSA
  • This site has a good discussion on creating a poster for conference presentation
  • Click here for a list of completed political science dissertations (1999-2000)
  • Click here for the APSA Guide to Professional Ethics in Political Science
  • 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
  • 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
  • Click here for a Ren and Stimpy discussion of regression
  • Click here to see my list of political science journals (revised from the APSA list)
  • Click here to enter the EIU Booth Library
  • Click here to enter the EIU Department of Political Science home page
  • Click here to see the Department of Political Science's list of links on politics and political research

    • Data and Reference Resources:

  • Click here for selected data from the 1980-1996 ANES. These SETUPS data are in SPSS format and have been zipped. Click here to get a free evaluation copy of Winzip in order to unzip the files.
  • Click here for information about the Virtual Data Center
  • The ICPSR maintains the world's largest data archive
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here is information and data from Eurobarometer
  • Transparency International monitors corruption world-wide
  • The Freedom House country ratings are available
  • Click here for the CIA Fact Book
  • Georgetown University maintains a Political Database of the Americas
  • SPSS provides numerous tools for data analysis
  • Here is a wonderful collection of working papers
  • Click here for World Trade Organization information, including trade rulings
  • The University of Richmond maintains an excellent constitution data base

    • International Financial Organizations:

  • The Asia Development Bank provides loans to Asian countries
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an important Asian RTB
  • Council of Europe offers information about the Parliamentary Assembly
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) helps finance economic transitions
  • European Parliament offers official documents and information in many languages
  • Europa is the official site of the European Union
  • EU's section devoted to the euro
  • Discussion of the SEA
  • G8 Information Centre houses documents and publications about the annual G8 summit and participating countries
  • G8 debt relief from the Cologne Summit
  • Click here for information on the GATT
  • GATT trade rounds
  • Inter-American Development Bank is a regional bank of the Americas
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF) features general information and publications
  • Videos chronicling the history of the IMF
  • Click here for an example of the Naples Treatment as applied to Chad
  • Mercosur is another RTB
  • Click here for the NAFTA Secretariat
  • OPEC's home page is available
  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) includes statistics, reports and information on macroeconomic issues
  • United Nations offers background, documents, news and more
  • United States Department of State provides transcripts, press briefings, human rights documents and more
  • United States Trade Representative's Office negotiates trade agreements on behalf of the president
  • World Bank features general background and information by region and country
  • Video on World Bank efforts to reduce poverty
  • World Trade Organization (WTO) covers a variety of trade-related issues
  • The WTO also has a video on solving trade disputes
  • WTO has a video about the changes from the GATT to WTO
  • Organizations opposed to WTO practices

    • Other Links of Interest:

  • Bretton Woods
  • Countervailing duty
  • Currency boards
  • Milton Friedman is also recognized as one of the great 20th century economic intellectuals
  • Greenbook on foreign assistance
  • Institute for International Economics has a wealth of information
  • John Maynard Keynes is one of the most influential economists of the 20th century
  • Paul Krugman maintains a very comprehensive site on international trade and monetary policy
  • NTBs
  • Nouriel Roubini maintains an excellent home page devoted to a range of international political economy issues
  • Transparency International campaigns against corruption in international business transactions
  • VERs


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