Teaching Graduate Political Methodology

Edited by Mitchell Brown, Professor, Department of Political Science, Auburn University, Shane Nordyke, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of South Dakota and Cameron G. Thies, Professor and Dean, James Madison College, Michigan State University, US

• Contents:Introduction to Teaching Graduate Political Methodology 1Mitchell Brown, Shane Nordyke, and Cameron G. ThiesPART I APPROACHING RESEARCH METHODS INTHE GRADUATE POLITICAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM1 Transitioning from consumers of knowledge to producersof knowledge: teaching scope and methods to doctoral students 8James C. Garand2 Teaching an introductory graduate methods course 17John Ishiyama3 Place-based versus online instruction 26Daniel Hawes4 Selecting texts 34Jon Parker5 Teaching introductory applied statistics with R 43Timothy M. PetersonPART II FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH DESIGN6 Do as I say, not as I do: the need to incorporate ethics inpolitical science research methods curricula 52Christi Siver and Colin Hannigan7 Abstract Blitzing and beyond: teaching political methodology 62Victor Asal8 Research design and establishing causality 70Stacey Pollard and Adrian Wolfberg9 How to think conceptually without really trying: notes onthe teaching of concept analysis 79Zachary Elkins10 Teaching field experiments 90Christopher W. Larimer11 Teaching graduate students about sampling 99Theodore Arapis12 Teaching bias and error in research designs 108Andrew Niesiobedzki13 Learning by doing: re-positioning surveys from an abstractto a practical tool 118Adriano Udani and David C. KimballPART III QUANTITATIVE METHODS INSTRUCTION14 Data basics for graduate students 125Soren Jordan15 Teaching ordinary least squares regression 134Michelle L. Dion16 Extending regression to binary (and more!) outcomes 169Soren Jordan17 Teaching time series analysis 182Clayton Webb18 Nonparametric data 189Carie Steele and Stephen Meserve19 Replication 198Cameron G. Thies20 How to teach social network analysis to social science students 205Olga Chyzh21 Building a foundation for data science researchers inpolitical science 212Robert Bond22 Data visualization 218Alexis Henshaw and Kirssa Cline RyckmanPART IV QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS23 Helping graduate students understand case study methods:rigor, process tracing, and practice exercises 227Andrew P. Cortell24 Field and observational research 235Stacey Leigh Hunt25 Teaching content analysis to graduate students 242Steven Lloyd Wilson and Yoshiko M. Herrera26 Teaching students better interviewing skills 250Mitchell Brown27 Discourse analysis 257Bryant Harden and Laura Sjoberg28 Teaching ethnography 265Laura Sjoberg and Lili ChenPART V SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION29 Teaching applied research 276Kathleen Hale30 Teaching program evaluation 288Ed Gerrish31 Teaching modern methodology for quantitative policy analysis 299Alexander Alexeev32 Intelligence studies 308Adam Jungdahl33 Teaching how to conduct an environmental behavioral study 318Binita MahatoConclusion to Teaching Graduate Political Methodology 330Mitchell Brown, Shane Nordyke, and Cameron G. ThiesIndex

‘Graduate political methodology teaching requires taking students from consumers to producers of knowledge and these chapters offer excellent, short, practical, and helpful advice to support this mission. Whether it is writing a syllabus, suggestions for course content, or larger department conversations around building a graduate curriculum this book covers it.’