Introduction

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 23

Readings

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

  2. Syllabus

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Friday, August 25

Readings

  1. 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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