The ECPR Standing Group on Political Methodology
Virginia Ros, University of Manchester The Public Mood is a measure of overall global attitudes towards government policies, a reflection of whether the population is in favour or against the policies that a government...
“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...
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...
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...
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.
