William Trochim and P. Donnelly (2007). The Research Methods Knowledge Base. 3rd Edition. Cincinnati, OH, Atomic Dog Publishing [Chapter 6: Design, pp. 171-190]. Further Readings: Donald T. Campbell and Julian C. Stanley (1963). Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. Chicago, IL. Rand McNally. *Rose McDermott (2002). “Experimental Methods In Political Science.” Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 5: 31-61. *Paul M. Sniderman and Douglas B. Grob (1996). “Innovations in Experimental Design in Attitude Surveys.” Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 22: 377-399. * Gerring, John and Rose McDermott ( 2007). “An Experimental Template for Case Study Research.” American Journal of Political Science. 51 (3): 688-701. - November 13, 2017: Statistical Design: Describe your data Basile) Readings: PP: Ch.3, pp.51-76; Edward R. Tufte (1974). Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall. Ch.1 Further Readings: Hans Zeisel (1968), Say It With Figures. New York, NY: Harper & Row Publs. Ch.1 to Ch.4 (pp.3-58). Earl Babbie and Fred Halliday (1959), Adventures in Social Research. Data Analysis SPSS for Windows. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge press. Part II (“Univariate Analysis”, pp.41-100). - November 20, 2017: Statistical Design: How to read a two-way table and what to do out of it (Linda Basile) Readings: PP: Ch.1, pp.7-26; Treiman (2009): Ch.2 Further Readings: Hans Zeisel (1968), Say It With Figures. New York, NY: Harper & Row Publs. Ch.5 (“Tables of more than two dimensions”, pp.59-75). Morris Rosenberg (1968), The Logic of Survey Analysis. New York, NY: Basic Books. Ch.1 (“The meaning of relationships”, pp.3-22). - November 27, 2017: Statistical Design: What happens controlling for a third variable: Spurious, Intervening, Antecedent and Conditional variables (Linda Basile) Readings:
PP: Ch.4, pp.77-101; Treiman (2009). Ch. 3 Further Readings: - Morris Rosenberg (1968). The Logic of Survey Analysis. New York, NY: Basic Books. Ch.2 (“Extraneous and Component Variables”, pp.23-53), Ch.3 (“Intervening and Antecedent Variables”, pp.54-83); Ch.5 (“Conditional Relations: aids to interpretation”, pp.105-130). - December 4, 2017 (h. 11-13): Experimental Design: experiments (Francesco Olmastroni) Readings: Diana C. Mutz (2011) Population-Based Survey Experiments. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Further Readings: Campbell, D. T., and Stanley, J.C, "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research on Teaching." In N. L. Gage (ed.), Handbook of Research on Teaching, pp.171-246. Chicago: Rand McNally, reprinted as Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. Ch.3 (pp.13-34). - December 11, 2017: Lab Experiment using examples (Alessandro Innocenti) Readings: Rebecca. B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams (2010). Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality. From Nature to the Lab, Cambridge University Press, New York, Chapter 1. Further Readings: N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia (2006). “The growth and development of experimental research in political sciences”, American Political Science Review, 100, 627-635. - December 18, 2017: Lab Experiment using examples (Alessandro Innocenti) Readings: Daniel Friedman and Shyam Sunder (1994). Experimental methods. A primer for economists, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, chapt. 1-2-3. Further Readings: Thomas R. Palfrey (2009). “Laboratory Experiments in Political Economy”, Annual Review of Political Science Rick K. Wilson (2011). “The Contribution of Behavioral Economics to Political Science”, Annual Review of Political Science 14:201-23.