Research Methods in Political Science I（政治学方法論 I）
School of Law and Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, Fall 2015
Syllabus (revised on Oct. 16, 2015)
Overview and Class Goals
This is a course on quantitative political methodology, which utilizes statistical methods to investigate problems in political science. You will learn to conduct reproducible research in political science with quantitative data. More specifically, you will learn:
- how to find data that enable you to answer your research questions,
- how to transform the collected data so that you can efficiently analyze them,
- how to analyze the data,
- how to report the result of your analyses, and
- how to record your entire data-analysis projects.
Class Materials
Required Book
- Lander, Jared. 2014. R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley（高柳慎一ほか訳. 2015.『みんなのR：データ分析と統計解析の新しい教科書』マイナビ）Link to the data sets
References
- Grolemund, Garret. 2014. Hands-On Programming with R. Sebastopol: O'Reilly.
- King, Gary. 1998. Unifying Political Methodology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Gelman, Andrew, and Jennifer Hill. 2007. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. New York: Cambridge UP.
- 浅野正彦, 矢内勇生. 2013.『Stataによる計量政治学』オーム社 この本のページ