PSC 204: Research Design

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Handouts Syllabus (Updated 1/03/08)

Online Readings Goldthorpe (2001), "Causation, Statistics and Sociology." Rosenbaum (1999), "Choice as an Alternative to Control in Observational Studies." Achen and Bartels (2004), "Blind Retrospection: Electoral Responses to Drought, Flu and Shark Attacks." Green and Gerber (2003), "The Underprovision of Experiments in Political Science." Brady (2004), "Symposium: Introduction." Smith (2004), "Symposium: Identities, Interests, and the Furture of Political Science." Granato (2004), "Symposium: Puzzles, Proverbs, and Omega Matrices." Achen and Snidal (1989), "Rational Deterrence Theory and Comparative Case Studies." Geertz (1972), "Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight." Freedman (1991), "Statistical models and shoe leather." Levitt (1994), "Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House." Stratmann (2005), "Some talk: Money in politics." Cloninger and Marchesini (2001), "Executions and Deterrence." Mocan and Gittings (2003), "Getting Off Death Row." Berk (2005), "New Claims about Executions and General Deterrence." Fagan (2005), "Deterrence and the Death Penalty." Donohue and Levitt (2001), "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime." Joyce (2004), "Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?" Donohue and Levitt (2004), "Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime." Levitt (2004), "Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s." Levitt and Sailer (1999), "Debate." Russett (1993), "Grasping the Democratic Peace." Layne (1994), "Kant or Cant? The Myth of the Democratic Peace." Ray (1998), "Does Democracy Cause Peace?" Groseclose and Milyo (2005), "A Measure of Media Bias." Niven (2003), "Objective Evidence on Media Bias." Patterson (1996), "Bad News, Period." Watts et al. (1999), "Elite Cues and Media Bias in Presidential Campaigns. " Kane and Staiger (2002), "The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures."