analysing politics

POL 20050, Spring 2008
Location: Lecture theatre P, Newman Building, UCD
Time: Monday 9 am, Wednesday 9 am

Course syllabus

Lecture 1: Politics and political science
Lecture 2: Research ethics
Lecture 3: Conceptualisation
Lecture 4: Measurement
Lecture 5: Theories
Lecture 6: Causality
Lecture 7: Formal models
Lecture 8: Computational models
Lecture 9: Case studies
Lecture 10: Case selection
Lecture 11: Comparative methods
Lecture 12: Content analysis
Lecture 13: Discourse analysis
Lecture 14: Elite interviews
Lecture 15: Ethnography
Lecture 16: Sampling
Lecture 17: Questionnaire design
Lecture 18: Continuous relationships
Lecture 19: Discrete relationships
Lecture 20: Statistical inference