POLS 3180 Lecture 10: POLS 3180 oct 8.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3180
• Professor: Edward Koning

Document Summary

Lecture operationalization: directly amenable to measurement operational defn, concept democracy, unit of analysis country, indicator presence of fair and competitive elections, values democratic or non democratic, sexism, individual, agreement with sexist statements, 0/1/2/3/4 (point system, legislative speed, parliament, # days bill is debated in committee or plenary session before submitted for vote, 0/1/2/3 , empirical referents, something we can see or observe to make empirical statements to measure and see, dir observables easy to observe by using senses. Sexism is not observable, using questions people can: school of thought agree/disagree on to determine, using one of these referents to summarize things, empirical research requires the use of these referents otherwise they are useless, causal theory someone with the x factor will be a better performer, causal model: x factor (cid:224) good performance. Not collectively exhaustive bc there are more religions that stated in the list: other category, precision, us, ny ny, street name, the more precise the better.