POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Dependent And Independent Variables
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What is international relations: the interactions between two sovereign states, the study of international relations is the science of how these interactions work. 10 multiple choice questions (ability to detect whether theory a or theory b is being used in the statement) How to write a theory paper: a puzzle (research question, a hypothesis (a theoretically and ontologically coherent casual explanation, an empirical test (comparative case studies, large-n, an evaluation the hypothesis against other alternative explanations. What is a puzzle: a question or problem for which there is no clear answer, around which a debate has emerged among theorists and practitioners alike, a good research question must be falsifiable. What is a causal explanation: a causal explanation is the answer to a why question, which provides a theoretically coherent because answer. What is a dependent variable: a dependent variable is the phenomenon that you are trying to explain it"s the.
