POLS265 Political Data Analysis
Schram
Fall 2005
Third
Assignment
Surveys and Experiments
Choose a topic of study. Propose a survey and an experiment that each can
produce data of relevance to understanding and explaining the topic. Specify
a design for each. Be sure to include discussion of your data source or sample,
how you would draw your sample or select cases, indicate what hypothesis or
hypotheses you will be testing, what variables and how they will be measured,
how your data will be collected, what survey instruments or experimental
inventions will
be used, and lastly what are the strengths and weaknesses of each approach in
this case and how triangulating them might enable you to have a better
understanding or explanation of your topic.
OR
Case Study Analysis
Choose a topic of study. Propose a case study analysis of the topic. Your
case study can be of one case or a comparative analysis. Justify why a case
study is appropriate for this topic while other methods of data collection
might not as appropriate. Justify why you propose the particular type of case
study that you have chosen and why it is better than other case study
approaches. Explain how you would conduct your study, what your data would be
and how you would interpret it.
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