Week 1: Introduction to Scientific Inquiry

During the first week, we will discuss the syllabus and talk about what it means for political science (or any social science, for that matter) to be a science.

Wednesday, August 28

  • Syllabus
  • Data Analysis for Social Science (from now on DASS). Chapter 1: pp. 1-6. available on Canvas, only for the first chapter.

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Friday, August 30

  • Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 1: pp 3-19 (stop at section 1.2.2).

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