PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: General Idea, Big Data
14 Aug 2016
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Intro to comparative politics, lecture 1, the comparative method. Political science has 4 main branches: international relations, political theory, american politics, comparative politics. Comparative method- way of analyzing cases to create conclusions about an outcome of inquiry: hypothesis testing- use a handful of cases to generate a hypothesis, aka using. Inductive reasoning: use examples to craft a statement or general idea, eg. usa"s increasing political polarization (trump, bernie) is due to greater disparities in wealth distribution, use comparisons across cases to test hypotheses, aka. Since the tree has no affect on the wind, and the wind has an affect on the tree causing it to move the wind blowing is the iv and the tree moving is the. Dv: in reality ivs are more of an idealistic concept than a real concept due to the interrelatedness of the world, eg. Better opportunities are the mechanism (or intervening variable) in this sequence.
