POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Sodium Bicarbonate, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Big themes: war, terrorism, trade, environment: these themes make up our globalized world, soft power: type of power projected internationally. What is a paradigm: paradigm: is a family of theories, which share a common set of assumptions, most ir theories (i. e. realism, liberalism) How to read: q-cards/notes, research question (e. g. why do civll wars break out in some cases then others?) How to write (*use this for outline/draft: a puzzle (research question, a hypothesis (theory, empirical test (case studies, large-n, evaluation of hypothesis against other explanations [how well your explanation is compared to others] What is a causal explanation: causal explanation: the answer to a why question which provides a theoretically coherent because answer. Independant variable [y: the thing that you think explains the dependant variable > the input of the causal explanation, explanatory variable, x happens because of y.
