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Research and Statistics

POL 60099 MA Capstone Course

The purpose of this directed research is to use completed course work to identify ways in which scholarship speaks to application, for instance in the non-profit, policy, consulting, or programming world. (Repeatable for credit; S/U)

POL 6/70002 Scope and Epistemology

This course introduces students to the philosophy of science and scientific inquiry within the context of the social sciences, and presents a broad survey of leading paradigms and debates within political science.

POL 6/70003 Quantitative Methods I

This course provides a selective introduction to basic quantitative methods for the analysis of political and public policy data dealing with basic descriptive and inferential statistics.

POL 6/70004 Quantitative Methods II

This course introduces students to multivariate quantitative techniques appropriate for the analysis of political and public policy data.

POL 6/70010 Qualitative Research Methods

This course introduces you to the principles and methods of qualitative research. We will examine the place of qualitative research alongside discussions about positivist, interpretivist, and critical approaches. A variety of qualitative research methods will be introduced including: social observation and ethnography, interviewing, discourse analysis, oral history, document analysis, historical analysis, and case studies. You will experiment with using some of these approaches in class and through assignments. We will also examine qualitative research design, data collection and data analysis methods.

POL 6/70304 Analytic Techniques of Policymaking

This course covers the concepts, techniques and conventions for assessing economic efficiency when this is one of the social and political goals relevant to public policymakers. Students are introduced to theories of cost-benefit analysis as they pertain to public policy.

POL 6/79091 Seminar: Quantitative Methods

(Repeatable for credit) This course will focus on select topics in quantitative/statistical methods, including limited and categorical dependent variables, hierarchical linear models, panel data, structural equation modeling, and Q Methodology. More than one seminar may be offered.

AMERICAN POLITICS AND POLICY

POL 6/70101 Status of the Field: American Politics and Policy

This course provides a broad survey of the political process in the U.S. government. Coverage includes mass political attitudes and behavior, formal government structures, and the informal networks of private groups that seek to influence public policy at the national level.

POL 6/70102 American Policy Process

This course emphasizes the politics of the policy process. Among topics covered are theories of policy formulation implementation and evaluation.

POL 6/70103 Congress, the Presidency, and the Courts

This course focuses on the branches of the U.S. government specifically congress the presidency and the judiciary. Coverage includes institutional rules and procedures that shape the incentives of these political actors and ultimately policy outcomes.

POL 6/70108 American Political Behavior

This course explores scholarship on the behavior of non-elite political actors including various forms of electoral participation, voting, psychological attachments, affect, cognitions, perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs. Beginning with the classics, students will observe the flowering of survey research in the discipline and follow the development of the Columbia and Michigan models of political participation and vote choice. The remainder of the seminar will divide the literature thematically: ethnic, racial, and gender politics; political participation; voting choice; political psychology; politics and networks; macro politics; and connecting individual-level and macro-level findings with democratic outcomes and citizen capacity.

POL 6/70105 Federalism and State Policymaking

This course covers the theory and practice of federalism with emphasis on its consequences for policy outcomes. Students also examine the transformation of the policy role of state governments in recent years.

POL 6/70106 Urban Policy and Politics

Urban public policy takes place within the context of suburbanization and metropolitan sprawl. Issues raised in this course include poverty, race and the role of business in local policymaking.

POL 6/70191 Seminar in American Politics and Policy

(Repeatable for credit) Seminar on current and important topics in American politics and policy. Subject matter varies depending on the emerging issue. This course may be repeated for credit with departmental approval.

TRANSNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND POLICY

POL 6/70501 Status of the Field: Transna