In this course, along with the regular lectures, there will be three discussion sessions. For the most part, sessions will be devoted to the discussion of data analysis carried out by students during the previous week. Students will be provided with national survey data for election years from 1952 to 1996 and given instruction on how to analyze the data. The techniques used are simple and quickly mastered. The initial exercises using the data are straightforward, but by the end of the quarter all students will be engaged in original and fairly sophisticated analysis of American voting behavior.
Assignments are identical for undergraduate and graduate students.
S-N students must complete all assignments in order to receive a Pass. They will not be a basis for examination, but their content may be raised in class discussion.