Syllabus/achievement requirements

Literature marked with a C are to be found in an article compilation which can be bought from Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus.

Achen, Christopher H. and Duncan Snidal (1989) “Rational deterrence theory and comparative case studies”, World Politics 41, 2: 143-169. (27p) Fronter

Adcock, Robert and Collier, David (2001): “Measurement validity: a shared standard for qualitative and quantitative research”, American Political Science Review 95: 529-546. (18p) Fronter

APSA: Qualitative Methods - Symposium: discourse and content analysis, Qualitative Methods 2, 1 (2004) s. 15-40. (26p) Fronter

Charmaz, Kathy (2003) “Qualitative interviewing and grounded theory analysis”, pp. 311-330 in James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gudrium (eds.) Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns. London: Sage. (20p) C

Collier, David (2011) “Understanding process tracing”, PS: Political Science and Politics 44, 4: 823-830. (8p) Fronter

Fearon, James D. and David Latin (2008) “Integrating qualitative and quantitative research methods”, in Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (20p) C

Frendreis, John P. (1983) “Explanation of variation and detection of covariation: the purpose and logic of comparative analysis”, Comparative Political Studies 16: 255-272. (18p) Fronter

Fujii, Lee Ann (2010) “Shades of truth and lies: interpreting testimonies of war and violence”, Journal of Peace Research 47, 2: 231-241. (11p) Fronter

Gaskarth, Jamie (2006) “Discourses and ethics: the social construction of British foreign policy”, Foreign Policy Analysis 2: 325-341. (17p) Fronter

Geddes, Barbara (1990) “How the cases you choose affect the answers you get: selection bias in comparative politics”, Political Analysis 2, 1: 131-150. (20p) Fronter

Gerring, John (2007) Case Study Research (Cambridge University Press). Ch. 1-6 + Epilogue. (194p)

Goertz, Gary (2005) Social Science Concepts (Princeton: Princeton University Press). Ch. 1, 2, 5. (93p)      

Hopf, Ted (2002) Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Ch. 1. (38p) Fronter

Johnston, Richard (2008) “Survey methodology”, in Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady, and David Collier (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (20p) C

King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba (1994) Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton University Press. Ch. 1-5. (227p) Fronter          

Krosnick, Jon A. (1999) “Survey research”, Annual Review of Psychology 50: 537-567. 31 p. Fronter

Levy, Jack S. (2008) “Case studies: types, designs, and logic of inference”, Conflict Management and Peace Science 25: 1-18. (18p) Fronter

Lieberman, Evan S. (2005) “Nested analysis as a mixed-method strategy for comparative research”, American Political Science Review 99, 3: 435-452. (18p) Fronter

Mahoney, James and Gary Goertz (2006) “A tale of two cultures: contrasting quantitative and qualitative research”, Political Analysis 14, 3: 227-249. (23p) Fronter

Megoran, Nick (2006) “For ethnography in political geography: experiencing and re-imagining Ferghana Valley boundary closures”, Political Geography 25: 622-640. (19p) Fronter

Neumann, Iver B. (2002) “Returning practice to the linguistic turn: the case of diplomacy”, Milennium: Journal of International Studies 31, 3: 627-651. (25s) Fronter

Posner, Daniel (2004) “The political salience of cultural differences: why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi”, American Political Science Review 98, 4: 529-546. (18p) Fronter

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich (2003) “Strategies of causal assessment in comparative historical analysis”, in James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.) Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (35p) C

Trachtenberg, Marc (2006) The Craft of International History: A Guide to Methods. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ch. 2-5. (139p)

Verwimp, Philip (2003) “Testing the double genocide thesis for central and southern Rwanda”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 47, 4: 423-442. (20p) Fronter

Weeden, Lisa (2010) “Reflections on ethnographic fieldwork in political science”, Annual Review of Political Science 13: 255-72. (18p) Fronter

Weyland, Kurt (2009) “The diffusion of revolution: ‘1848’ in Europe and Latin America”, International Organization 63: 391-423. (33p) Fronter

 

Total: 1,123 pages

Published June 24, 2013 1:51 PM