Political Science Scope and Methods

Graphic similar to the butterfly ballot used in Palm Beach County.

Butterfly ballot from 2000 U.S. presidential elections. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)

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MIT Course Number

17.869

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Fall 2010

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Course Description

This course is designed to provide an introduction to a variety of empirical research methods used by political scientists. The primary aims of the course are to make you a more sophisticated consumer of diverse empirical research and to allow you to conduct advanced independent work in your junior and senior years. This is not a course in data analysis. Rather, it is a course on how to approach political science research.

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Adam Berinsky. 17.869 Political Science Scope and Methods. Fall 2010. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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