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Instructors: Dr. Jürgen Unger-Sirsch
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Sem Methodology
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
- MA European Studies (Europamaster) (Modul 5 Advanced Political Science and Study Project: Politics in Europe)
Contents:
This course is an introduction to social science methodology.
First, we will discuss basic questions: what is science? What is social science? What is a theory? What is a concept? What is the difference between explaining and understanding?
Second, we will discuss research design on political science. What is a good research question? How to select cases? How to operationalize? How to compare? What is a typology?
Third, we will discuss concrete research designs to show how to practice what we preach.
Recommended reading list:
Stepehen Van Evera: Guide to Methods for students of Political Science, Cornell UP: Ithaca 1997
Thomas Gschwend/Frank Schimmelfennig: Research Design in Political Science, Palgrave: New York 2011
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