The ECPR Standing Group on Political Methodology
“A piece of data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”[1] Investigating such kind of data has...
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Political theorists clearly use methods and deploy methodologies (how could they not?). But – to generalise, though I think fairly – many theorists are not explicit about how they ‘do theory’. For example, in...
An opportunity to take part to an ERC on “Toxic expertise” at the University of Warwick: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYN380/research-fellow-80110-047/
These parallel workshops, in quantitative and qualitative techniques, take place during the 2017 ECPR Summer Methods School at Central European University, Budapest. Designed to meet the needs of experienced academics, you should sign up...
Scholars justifying selection of cases often utilize a ‘least-likely’ case selection strategy. As commonly used, a least-likely case is one that, ‘on all dimensions except the dimension of theoretical interest, is predicted not to...
Lea Sgier, a member of the SGPM steering committee, will be teaching Qualitative methods at the 50th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, which is to take place from 10th July to...
A whole range of terms have been used to make sense of the bewildering variety of methodological orientations, practices and assumptions to be found among social scientists today.
Dear members, The Steering Committee is the group of five SGPM members who handle the day-to-day activities of the group. Within the new framework set up by the ECPR, and the new SGPM constitution...
There are still a few places left for ‘Discourse & Visual Analysis’ at the IPSA ‘Methods’ Summer School July 4-15, 2016, hosted at the National University of Singapore. Details and enrolment information here: http://methods-school.nus.edu.sg/...
