Required Reading Campbell, Donald, and Julian Stanley. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Evera, Stephen Van. Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science. Cornell University Press, 1997.
King, Gary, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry Research. Princeton University Press, 1994.
Additional Reading
Berinsky, Adam J. "'Can We Talk?' Self Presentation and the Survey Response." Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2001 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA.]
Davis, Glenn. Questionnaire on "Investigator's Statement of the Policies and Practices to be followed in the Conduct of Research Involving Human Subjects." Institutional Review Panel for Human Subjects. Princeton University. (Revised on 9/01/1999.)
Weekly Readings
| Part I: The Scientific Method | | 1 | Introduction and Course Overview | | | 2 | Models and Theories in Political Science | Almond, Gabriel. "Political Science: The History of the Discipline." In A New Handbook of Political Science.
Riker, William. "The Two-Party System and Duverger's Law: An Essay on the History of Political Science." American Political Science Review (1982) (J).
Mayhew, David. "Electoral Realignments." Annual Review of Political Science. | | Part II: Methods of Research | | 3 | Introduction to Research Design and the Experimental Method | Evera, Stephen Van. Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science. Chapter 1.
King, Gary, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry. Chapter 1.
Campbell, Donald, and Julian Stanley. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research (read pages 1-64; play close attention to pages 6-34). | | 4 | Case Studies, Comparing Cases, and Statistical Analysis | Evera, Stephen Van. Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science. Chapter 2 (to page 77).
Collier, David. "The Comparative Method: Two Decades of Change." In Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives. Edited by Rustow, and Erickson.
Mahoney, James. "Strategies of Causal Inference in Small-N Analysis." In Sociological Methods and Research.
Berinsky, Adam. "Silent Voices: Social Welfare Policy Opinions and Political Equality in America." American Journal of Political Science. | | Part III: Gathering Data | | 5 | Selecting and Sampling Cases | Evera, Stephen Van. Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science. Chapter 2 (77-88).
King, Gary, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry. Chapter 4.
Lustick, Ian. "History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias." American Political Science Review (1997) (J).
Goldhagen, Daniel. Hitler's Willing Executioners. Appendix 1. | | 6 | Observation, Measurement, and Political Implications I | King, Gary, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry. Chapter 5.
Putnam, Robert. Making Democracy Work. Chapter 3. | | 7 | Observation, Measurement, and Political Implications II | Gladwell, Malcolm. "Examined Life: What Stanley Kaplan Taught us about the SAT." In The New Yorker. (Dec 17, 2001).
Henry Brady, et al. "Law and Data: The Butterfly Ballot Episode." PS: Political Science and Politics 34 (March 2001): 59-69.
Nisbett, Richard, and Timothy Wilson. "Telling more than We can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes." Psychological Review (1977).
Fenno, Richard F. Jr. "The House Appropriations Committee as a Political System: The Problem of Integration." American Political Science Review (1962). | | Part IV: Guest Lectures | | 8 | Stephen Ansolabehere | none | | 9 | TBA | none | | Part V: Student Presentations | | 10 | Group 1 | none | | 11 | Group 2 | none | | 12 | Group 3 | none | | Part VI: Conclusions | | 13 | Final Thoughts: Ethics and Political Research | Milgram, Stanley. "Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority." Human
Relations 18 (1965):57-76.
Zimbardo, Phillip. "A Pirandellian Prison." New York Times Magazine (April 8, 1973).
(See also Zimbardo's description of this Prison experiment) |
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