Research Methods in Political Science III（政治学方法論 III）
School of Law and Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, Spring 2016
Syllabus
Overview and Class Goals
This course introduces students to causal inference based on the potential outcome approach. The students will learn some statistical methods to find out causal effects in political phenomena so that they will be able to make causal claims in their own research.
Required Book
- Angris, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2014. Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton: Princeton UP.