Week 2: Social Scientific Inquiry

Monday, January 26

  • Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 1: pp 3-23 (stop at section 1.2.3).

Wednesday, January 28

  • Kellstedt, Paul M., and Guy D. Whitten. 2018. The Fundamentals of Political Science Research, 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3 (from now on Kellstedt and Whitten).

Friday, January 30

  • Musgrave, Paul, and Nick Davis. 2023. “A Good Thesis is a Feasible Thesis.” Thesis Statement [blog], May 4.