INTL 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spurious Relationship, Dependent And Independent Variables, Comparative Politics
4 Feb 2016
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Qualitative vs quantitative evidence: story behind a phenomena vs the mathematical relationship. The fundamental source of evidence is the case: basic unit of analysis in cp and usually combines a concept and a country. Extremist islam in afghanistan: can also be specific events, like social movements or conflicts, small-n studies use as few as two cases for comparison. Healthcare in us vs canada: large-n studies can examine hundreds of cases. A comparison of all social movements across asia for the past century: efficient case comparisons require a structured approach, variables- moving parts of the study behaviors to be examined/explained. Dependent variables are acted upon by independent variables. Searching for the puzzle- why is there a discrepancy between outcomes. Most similar systems design (mss: begin similarly in a number of ways, but exhibit variations in outcomes, ghana and togo are similar in many ways but different politically.
