POLS1009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gerrymandering, Falsifiability
L3 CONCEPTS AND CASE SELECTION
- Use on method or the other
- Try and test your hypothesis. Know the limits.
- Be clear about how you could be wrong. How your hypothesis is viable.
- In terms of comparative analysis you have what you need. Have all the methodological you need.
- Justify why your used most similar or most different method.
- Have to pick the most similar cases… Need to give a few sentences for one of the two methods.
- True value ….
- Infant mortality is a good indiviator of poverty.
- Things have to be falsifiable
- Proponents of the Democratic Peace ……
Ways to avoid conceptual stretching
Way to avoid biasing your selection of cases
Poverty
- Edmund Burke: Poverty should be reserved ‘for the sick and inform, for orphan infancy, for
languishing and decrepit old age.’
- The researcher might be trying to make a case about poverty to make a significant result. WANT TO
AVOID THIS. If there is a difference between the types of poverty don’t gerrymander language to
make a point.
Conceptual Travelling
- Given most of our concepts have been derived from Western (usually Anglo) political experience,
can they travel to other cultures and different institutions?
- Think: poverty, revolution, democracy, political parties, constitution, executive, legislature, free
speech.
- We need some order of constraint to prove to sceptics.
Free Speech
- The First Amendment of US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of
speech.”
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Document Summary
Be clear about how you could be wrong. In terms of comparative analysis you have what you need. Justify why your used most similar or most different method. Have to pick the most similar cases need to give a few sentences for one of the two methods. Infant mortality is a good indiviator of poverty. Way to avoid biasing your selection of cases. Edmund burke: poverty should be reserved for the sick and inform, for orphan infancy, for languishing and decrepit old age. ". The researcher might be trying to make a case about poverty to make a significant result. If there is a difference between the types of poverty don"t gerrymander language to make a point. Think: poverty, revolution, democracy, political parties, constitution, executive, legislature, free speech. We need some order of constraint to prove to sceptics. The first amendment of us constitution: congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
