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Title: Good Research


1
Good Research
2
How We Know Things
  • Definitions
  • Common Language
  • Common Rules

3
How do we know things, part II
  • Investment
  • Authority
  • Logic
  • Faith
  • Science

4
What is Science?
  • An Activity
  • A method
  • Not content
  • Social Science

5
Limits to Science
  • Tentative Truth
  • Recursive behavior
  • Objective Reality?

6
What do we know?
  • Shared Experience
  • Precedent
  • Trustworthiness

7
How we use what we know
  • Normative Analysis
  • Guiding Principles
  • Big Questions
  • Empirical Analysis
  • Quantitative
  • Qualitative

8
Reasoning Errors
  • Overgeneralization
  • Selective observation
  • Inaccurate observation
  • Illogical reasoning

9
History of Political Science
10
Traditional Political Science
  • Historical
  • Legal
  • Institutional

11
Behavioral Political Science
  • 1950s and 1960s
  • Change in Scholars
  • Change in Focus
  • Empirical
  • Hard Core
  • Problems
  • Wheres the Politics?
  • Narrows our focus

12
Post-Behavioralism
  • 1970s and 1980s
  • Social Relevance
  • Broader Perspective

13
Methods Revolution
  • 1990s
  • Computers
  • Precision

14
Perestroika
  • 1999-
  • Post-Modern
  • Multi-Perspective
  • Multi-Method
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