Introduction to the Symposium on Teaching Political Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-205
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Harden ◽  
Justin E. Esarey
Keyword(s):  
Political Methodology

Compression and Conditional Effects: A Product Term Is Essential When Using Logistic Regression to Test for Interaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlisle Rainey
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Simulation Studies ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Conditional Effects ◽  
Product Term

Previous research in political methodology argues that researchers do not need to include a product term in a logistic regression model to test for interaction if they suspect interaction due to compression alone. I disagree with this claim and offer analytical arguments and simulation evidence that when researchers incorrectly theorize interaction due to compression, models without a product term bias the researcher, sometimes heavily, toward finding interaction. However, simulation studies also show that models with a product term fit a broad range of non-interactive relationships surprisingly well, enabling analysts to remove most of the bias toward finding interaction by simply including a product term.

Political Methodology: Qualitative Methods

1998 ◽  
pp. 749-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Ragin ◽  
Dirk Berg‐Schlosser ◽  
Gisèle de Meur
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Political Methodology

Gramscian International Political Economy from a Feminist Perspective

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooja Rishi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Relational Analysis ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
And Gender

Feminist Gramscian international political economy (IPE) is an interdisciplinary intellectual project that has focused both on theoretical and empirical analysis of women and gender within the field. Feminist Gramscian IPE emerged from the confluence of an eclectic body of work over the last several years encompassing fields as disparate as international relations, IPE, feminist economics, the literature on gender and development, and feminist literature on globalization. As with feminist perspectives in other disciplinary fields, Gramscian feminists have largely embraced postpositivist, interpretivist, and relational analysis while trying to maintain the emancipatory potential of their work for women the world over. Current Gramscian feminist analyses are firmly grounded and draw from early Marxist/Socialist feminist interventions. They have also engaged with the three major categories of analysis in Gramscian thought—ideas, material capabilities, and institutions—in order to understand hegemonic processes that function to (re)construct and (re)produce both gendered categories of analysis and practice. Feminist revisions of Gramscian IPE have focused on international institutions, rules and norms, while simultaneously shedding light on contemporary states and how they are being transformed in this current phase of globalization. Three central tasks that feminist Gramscian scholars may consider in future research are: to be more engaged with the notion of hegemony, to revisit the political methodology employed by many feminist Gramscian analyses, and to devote more attention to non-mainstream perspectives.

scholarly journals Selecting in or Selecting Out? Gender Gaps and Political Methodology in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-127
Author(s):  
Malu A. C. Gatto ◽  
Anita R. Gohdes ◽  
Denise Traber ◽  
Mariken A. C. G. van der Velden
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Methods Courses ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
European Universities ◽  
The Us ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Phd Programs

ABSTRACTStudies investigating gender gaps in the doctoral training of political science students have focused so far overwhelmingly on the US context. Although important research within this context has made strides in identifying the persistent challenges to women’s incorporation in political methodology, much remains unknown about whether women and men have different experiences in methods training during their PhD programs. We contribute to this debate by analyzing data from an original survey on the methods-training experiences of political science PhD students at different European universities. We assess whether gender gaps exist with respect to PhD students’ methods training and confidence in employing methods skills. Our findings show that women cover significantly fewer methods courses in their doctoral training. When women do participate in methods training, they show levels of method employment similar to their male colleagues. We discuss the implications of these findings in the context of European doctoral training.

On the Origins of Gandhi's Political Methodology: The Heritage of Kathiawad and Gujarat

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Spodek
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Labor Union ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Passive Resistance ◽  
Princely State ◽  
Civic Leadership ◽  
Land Policies

This paper examines the benefits and the liabilities in Gandhi's exploitation of his own Gujarate regional and bania caste heritages in mobilizing political support.From his father, a prime minister in a small, princely state in Kathiawad, Gujarat, Gandhi learned of methods of nonviolent political protest including the fast, passive resistance by sitting dharna, and organized disobedience to law. Later he employed these Kathiawadi techniques, designed for local struggles, in his national program. Recognizing the political potential of bania financiers, Gandhi chose in middle life to work in Ahmedabad, the business capital of Gujarat, and won the community's support for the Congress. In turn, Gandhi's swadeshi campaigns, proclaimed to encourage cottage industry, also stimulated Ahmedabad's textile industry. Gandhi also found organizational support in Gujarat: a nascent labor union; a press; efficient, nationalistic civic leadership; and caste-based agrarian groups chafing under British land policies.Gandhi's innovative use of various Gujarati and bania heritages won many supporters across India, but is also alienated important groups: many Bengalis favored violence; Marxists called Gandhi a capitalist stooge; princes and landowners feared his mass-organizations; and Muslims found his Hinduism unsympathetic.

Constantine Karamanlis

2020 ◽  
pp. 629-644
Author(s):  
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the impact of Constantinos Karamanlis on Greek politics. Karamanlis, leader of the Greek Right, served as prime minister for fourteen years (1955–63 and 1974–80), and as president of the republic for ten (1980–5 and 1990–5). A major (and, at times, dominant) figure from the mid-1950s until the mid-1990s, he was pivotal in the attainment of economic development and the founding of an established democracy in 1974–75, as well as Greece’s association with the EEC (1961) and its eventual succession (1979–81). The chapter discusses his long political career, his popular support base and the evolution of the Greek Right from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. It also evaluates Karamanlis’ political methodology: it disputes the assumptions of older bibliography which focused on his personal impact only, and puts forward the more contemporary thesis that Karamanlis was the leader of a team that expressed a wider ideological trend and the need to adjust to Western governance in the post-war era. Last but not least, Karamanlis’ legacies are discussed, mostly on the European identity of the country; arguably, this legacy allowed the Greek Right to survive the grave economic and social crisis of the 2010s.

Quantitative Methodology

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Summer Programs ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Market Niche ◽  
American Political Science

This article reviews the history of the quantitative methodology institutions, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and the American Political Science Association's Political Methodology Section. It also highlights the role of organizations and institutions in promoting and structuring the development of quantitative methodology in political science. The development of summer programs in quantitative methods is described. There was a market niche for methodology both as a subfield on its own, and as a direct contributor to improving substance through improved methods. The existence of the Society for Political Methodology has increased expectations for graduate training, at least among those who see their careers as methodologists.

Field Experiments and Natural Experiments

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Gerber ◽  
Donald P. Green
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Field Experimentation ◽  
The Many

This article evaluates the strengths and limitations of field experimentation. It first defines field experimentation and describes the many forms that field experiments take. It also interprets the growth and development of field experimentation. It then discusses why experiments are valuable for causal inference. The assumptions of experimental and nonexperimental inference are distinguished, noting that the value accorded to observational research is often inflated by misleading reporting conventions. The article elaborates on the study of natural experiments and discontinuities as alternatives to both randomized interventions and conventional nonexperimental research. Finally, it outlines a list of methodological issues that arise commonly in connection with experimental design and analysis: the role of covariates, planned vs. unplanned comparisons, and extrapolation. It concludes by dealing with the ways in which field experimentation is reshaping the field of political methodology.

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