political

Each topic & question is worth 2 points

POLITICAL DATA ANALYSIS

POLS 365

THREE TOPICS AND QUESTIONS

NAME:

Indicate THREE topics/issues that you would like to “explain” and a potential research question for each of them. The topics have to be related to politics (or to social science in general). They would be the “dependent variable” in a research project. Propose one topic and an empirical question related to that topic for each of the subfields of Political Science.

Read the Barrington chapter, as well as the suggested reading by Johnson & Reynolds in order to better understand how to propose a good research question. At this point you can write descriptive questions about ONE variable (the dependent variable): who, what, where, when, how. You don’t need to write a ‘why’ question, unless you are sure of what you are doing.

1. AMERICAN POLITICS

2. COMPARATIVE POLITICS

3. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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