Metod

Metod 15 hp. Methods 15 ECTS.

• Additional Articles. Several can be downloaded. (See list at Studentportalen ("File area"/"Filarea").)
• Bäck, Hanna; Dumont, Patrick, Combining Large-n and Small-n Strategies: The Way Forward in Coalition Research, 2007 (From West European Politics, Vol 30, pp 467–501)
• Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (Read:Peter Hall, 'Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics', pp 373–404.Mahoney and Rueschemeyer, 'Comparative historical analysis: achievements and agendas', pp 3–40.)
• Connolly, William E., The terms of political discourse, 3. rev. ed., Oxford, Blackwell ; a Princeton, 1993 (Read:Introduction and chapter 1 and 3.Avaliable at the Student Offfice, Gamla Torget 6, Badhuset, level 3.)
• George, Alexander L., Case studies and theory development in the social sciences, Cambridge, Mass., MIT, 2005
• Gerring, John, Social science methodology: a criterial framework, Cambridge ;a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (Read:Chapters 3 and 4, first part on conceptual analysis.Avaliable at the Student Office, Gamla Torget 6, Badhuset.)
• Guzzini, Stefano, The concept of power: a constructivist analysis, 2005 (From Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol 33, pp 495–522)
• Hacking, Ian, The social construction of what?, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1999 (Read:Chapters 1, 3 and 4.Availiable at the Student Office, Gamla Torget 6, Badhuset.)
• King, Gary; Keohane, Robert O.; Verba, Sidney, Designing social inquiry: scientific inference in qualitative research., Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press (Read:Chapter 1. Possible to download.)
• Knoke, David.; Bohrnstedt, George W.; Mee, Alisa Potter, Statistics for social data analysis, 4th ed., Itasca, F.E. Peacock Publishers, 2002 (Alternativt kan boken bytas ut mot följande tre titlar/Alternative 1 to Bohrnstedt, Knoke, Mee:Lewis-Beck, Michael, 1980, Applied Regression - An Introduction. London: Sage PublicationsBerry, William D., 1993, Understanding Regression Assumptions, London: Sage PublicationsAchen, Christopher H., 1982, Interpreting and Using Regression, London:Sage PublicationsEller (på svenska)/Alternative 2 to Bohrnstedt, Knoke, Mee (in Swedish):Edling, Christopher och Hedström, Peter, 2003, Kvantitativa metoder. Grundläggande analysmetoder för samhälls- och beteendevetare. Lund: Studentlitteratur.)
• McKeown, Timothy, Case Studies and the Statistical Worldview: Review of King,Keohane and Verbas Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Interference in Qualitative Research, 1999 (From International Organizations, Vol 53, No 1, pp 161–190 at Cambridge Journals)
• Moses, Jonathon W., Ways of knowing: competing methodologies in social and political research, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Oskarsson, Sven et al., How to Use SPSS: A Brief Guide to a Statistical Software., Uppsala, Department of Government, Uppsala University, 2007 (Available at the student office, Department of Government)
• Pampel, Fred C., Logistic regression: a primer, Thousand Oaks, Calif., SAGE, 2000
• Sartori, Giovanni, Concept Misformation i Comparative Politics, 1970 (From American Political Science Review, vol 64, no 4)
• Social mechanisms: an analytical approach to social theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998 (Read:Chapter 1. Download.)
• Teorell, Jan, Methods combined: an overview of the argument., Unpublished manuscript, Department of Government, Uppsala University., 2001
• Winther Jørgensen, Marianne, Discourse analysis as theory and method, London, Sage, 2002