GOVT2991 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Principal Component Analysis, Pippa Norris

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT2991
• Professor: Martin John Kear

Document Summary

Week 8: comparative political analysis; working with big data (2 may) Textbook: chapter 14 jonathan hopkin the comparative method", pp. Reader: pippa norris and ronald f. inglehart (2012) muslim integration into western cultures: Problems: cultural differences, fear of political backlash, mistrust of data use, give answers researchers want to hear, translate questions between languages, Failure of model to account for eg: singapore (wealthy but not democratic) researchers want to add extra variables to account for divency but comparativitsts argue that the model becomes driven by variables.