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University of Toronto Political Science Department

Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning

POL322H1F Fall 2012, SF1105 6-8pm

Course Description: The aim of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the principles of quantitative methodology, including essential elements of research design, data analysis and data presentation employed in quantitative research. The course places particular emphasis on evaluating and interpreting quantitative research, rather than merely conducting statistical calculations. Although much of the course is devoted to the statistical methods used in political science, such research skills may be extended to a wide variety of academic and non-academic settings. Instructor: Michael Painter-Main Office: Sidney Smith Hall, Room SS3118 Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm Phone: TBD Email: m.painter.main@utoronto.ca Teaching Assistant: Alejandro García Magos The TA will serve two primary roles: mark assignments and act as a contact for student questions and concerns. TA office hours and email access will start in week four. Office hour time and location TBD. Required Readings: Dane, Francis C. 2011. Evaluating Research: Methodology for People Who Need to Read Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Other readings will be denoted as either available on Blackboard or via the UofT library’s online journal catalog.

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Course Assignments and Marking Scheme

1. Quizzes - 15% Throughout the course, students will be evaluated through quizzes. Grades will be determined through three quizzes (5% each) testing student knowledge on course readings and lecture material.

2. Assignment #1- 15%, due October 15th For this assignment, students are expected to choose and analyze two political science articles/chapters with similar research frameworks. The objective is to compare, contrast and critique the two articles based on the research design utilized. The paper should be no longer than 3 pages (double spaced).

3. Assignment #2- 30%, due November 26th This assignment asks students to evaluate three articles that revolve around the measurement of an issue in political science. The assignment involves a 5 page discussion of what was done, what was found, as well as an evaluation of the validity and reliability of the measure employed.

4. Report- 40%, due December 5th For this report, students are asked to develop a paper (8-10 pages, not including bibliography, tables and figures) on a topic in the political science literature that utilizes regression analysis. Students will be able to choose from a list of appropriate topics. The report will consist of a clear and focused literature review, which concentrates on the discussion and analysis of the quantitative research utilized. The objective of this report is to further develop students’ skills and comfort level in the comprehension of quantitative research and the ability to describe data. Late Penalties: All assignments/reports are due at the beginning of class. Once lecture has begun, they are deemed late. Emailed assignments will not be accepted. Extensions will only be granted with appropriate documentation (e.g., a medical note). Late papers can be handed in at the political science office (SS3018). Late penalties are 5% per day (including weekends). The maximum late penalty is 30% (one week late) after which the assignment will not be accepted.

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Guidelines for Assignment/Report: 1. Students are strongly advised to keep rough and draft work and hard copies of their essays and assignments before handing them in to the TA/Instructor/Department. These should be kept until the marked assignments have been returned and the grades posted on ROSI. 2. There will be no extensions beyond the due date of an assignment without a certificate from your physician. 3. Please familiarize yourself with the university’s policy on plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious academic offense and will be dealt with accordingly. For further clarification and information on plagiarism, please see Writing at the University of Toronto http://www.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources. Assignments and reports are to be written specifically for this course. You should not use another person’s words or ideas without attribution, whether those words or ideas come from conversations (including Internet chat rooms or study groups), a web site, or printed materials. If in doubt as to proper procedure, consult the lecturer or your teaching assistant. The only safe policy is to cite fully all sources of whatever kind. 4. Normally, students will be required to submit their course report to Turnitin.com for a review of textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their essays to be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database, where they will be used solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. The terms that apply to the University’s use of the Turnitin.com service are described on the Turnitin.com web site. Use of Turnitin.com is voluntary and students not wishing to use it will be asked to hand over all notes and rough drafts of their work. Accessibility Needs: The University of Toronto is committed to accessibility. If you require accommodations for a disability or have any accessibility concerns related to the course, the classroom or the course materials, please contact Accessibility Services at: accessibility.services@utoronto.ca or http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/.

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Course Outline and Reading Schedule (Blackboard Readings indicated by (BB))

September 10th, Week 1: Money, Happiness and Crime Rates: A Foray into Quantitative Research Required Readings: Francis, Chapter 1 O’Connell, Michael. 1999. “Is Irish Public Opinion towards Crime Distorted by Media Bias?” European Journal of Communications, 14: 191-212. (BB) Quoidbach, Jordi, Elizabeth W. Dunn, K.V. Petrides and Moira Mikolajczak. 2010. “Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away: The Dual Effect of Wealth on Happiness.” Psychological Science, 20(10): 1-5. (BB) Boyce, Christopher J., Gordon D.A. Brown and Simon C. Moore. 2010. “Money and Happiness: Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction.” Psychological Science, 21(4): 471-475. (BB) Recommended Sources: Best, Joel. 2001. “The Importance of Social Statistics.” In Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 9-29. Bellos, Alex. 2010. “A Head for Numbers.” In Here’s Looking at Euclid. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1-22. Oishi, Shigehiro, Ed Diener, Richard E. Lucas and Eunkook M. Suh. 2002. “Cross-Cultural Variations in Predictors of Life Satisfaction: Perspectives from Needs and Values.” Social Indicators Research, 57(2): 119-169. Picot, Garnett. 2003. “Does Statistical Analysis Matter?” Horizons, 6(1): 6-10. Roberts, Julian V. 1992. “Public Opinion, Crime and Criminal Justice.” Crime and Justice, 16: 99-180. Rosling, Hans. 2006. “Stats That Reshape Your World-View.” Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Talks. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html Williams, Frederick. 1992. “Why do Quantitative Research?” In Reasoning with Statistics: How to Read Quantitative Research, 4th Edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 3-9.

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September 17th, Week 2: Why People Loath Group Work and Why the Middle Class is Essential to Democracy: Exploring the Science of Quantitative Research Required Readings: Francis, Chapter 2 Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “The Scientific Approach to Politics.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 3-27. (BB) Harris, Daniel. 2012. “The Free Rider: Collective Action Failures in Cycling and Beyond. Overseas Development Institute (ODI). http://www.odi.org.uk/opinion/details.asp?id=6718&title=collective-action-international-development-policy-cycling-london-2012-olympics Fukuyama, Francis. 2012. “The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive the Decline of the Middle Class?” Foreign Affairs, 91(1): 53. (BB) Recommended Sources: Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Research as a Process.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 1-15. Fukuyama, Francis and Gideon Rose. 2012. “Foreign Affairs Live: The Future of History” Foreign Affairs, Video: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/discussions/audio-video/foreign-affairs-live-the-future-of-history Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “The Empirical Approach to Political Science.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 33-73. Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “The Scientific Study of Politics.” In The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 1-21. King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba. “The Science of Social Science” In Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton University Press, 7-11.

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September 24th, Week 3: Campaign Literature and Persuasion: Types of Research Methods in Quantitative Literature Required Readings: Francis, Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11 Brown, Steven D.; Perrella, Andrea M.L.; and Kay, Barry J., "Revisiting Local Campaign Effects: An Experiment Involving Literature Mail Drops in the 2007 Ontario Election" (2010). Political Science Faculty Publications. Paper 13. http://scholars.wlu.ca/poli_faculty/13 Peter John Loewen and Daniel Rubenson. 2011. "For Want of a Nail: Direct Mail and Negative Persuasion in a Leadership Campaign," Party Politics, 17(1), 45-65. http://www.politics.ryerson.ca/rubenson/downloads/iggy.pdf Recommended Sources: Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Experiments.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 200-211. Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Observing the Political World: Survey Research.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 177-192. Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Content Analysis.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 212-222. Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Making Empirical Observations: Direct and Indirect Observation.”, “Survey Research and Interviewing.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 257-277; 306-353. Kamil, Michael L. 2004. “The Current State of Quantitative Research.” Reading Research Quarterly, 39(1): 100-107. Kellstedt, Lyman and James Guth. 2013. “Survey Research: Religion and Electoral Behavior in the United States, 1936-2008. In Akan Malici and Elizabeth S. Smith (eds.), Political Science Research in Practice. New York: Routledge. 93-109. Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Quantitative Research Designs.” In Reading and Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 89-108. Loewen, Peter, Daniel Rubenson and Leonard Wantchekon. 2010. "Help Me Help You: Conducting Field Experiments With Political Elites," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 628(1): 189-99. http://www.politics.ryerson.ca/rubenson/downloads/ANNALS351522_Rev.pdf

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October 1st, Week 4: Do Canadians Want a Census? Quantitative Data and Article Structure Required Readings: Francis, Chapter 3 Pantoja, Adrian D. and Sarah Allen Gershon. “Statistical Research: To Naturalize or Not to Naturalize?” In Akan Malici and Elizabeth S. Smith (eds.), Political Science Research in Practice. New York: Routledge. 76-92. (BB) Angus Reid. 2010. “Majority of Canadians Support Move to Reinstate Long Form Census.” http://www.angus-reid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010.10.06_Census_CAN.pdf Creekside. 2010. “While You Were Sleeping…The G&M Census Poll.” http://creekside1.blogspot.ca/2010/07/while-you-were-sleeping-g-census-poll.html Yalnizyan, Armine. 2010. “The Globe’s Experiment in Census-Taking.” The Progressive Economics Forum. http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/18/the-globe%E2%80%99s-experiment-in-census-taking/ Ditchburn, Jennifer. 2010. “U.S. Tested Then Scrapped Voluntary Census.” Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/us-tested-then-scrapped-voluntary-census/article1645137/ Chase, Steven. 2010. “Government Study Reveals Significant Errors in Voluntary Census.” Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/government-study-reveals-significant-errors-in-voluntary-census/article1700566/ Recommended Sources: Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Writing the Report.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 358-368. Best, Joel. 2001. “Soft Facts: Sources of Bad Statistics.” In Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 30-61. Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “The Research Report: Diagramming a Sample Article.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 377-391. Goldacre, Ben. 2011. “Battling Bad Science.” TED Talks. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “The Research Report: An Annotated Example.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 594-616.

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Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “The Research Report.”, “How to Select and Read Research Reports.” In Reading and Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 3-22; 53-70. Shermer, Michael. 2006. “Why People Believe Weird Things.” TED Talks. http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html

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October 15th, Week 5: Democracy is about Elections, Right?: Measuring Political Concepts and Why it Matters

**ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE** Required Readings: Francis, Chapter 6 Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Measurement.” In The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 86-103. (BB) Paxton, Pamela. 2000. “Women’s Suffrage in the Measurement of Democracy: Problems of Operationalization.” Studies in Comparative International Development, 35(3): 92-111. (BB) Recommended Sources: Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Defining the Political World: Measures.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 67-92. Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Defining the Political World: Concepts.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 48-66. Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “From Abstract to Concrete: Operationalization and Measurement.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 88-116. Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “The Building Blocks of Scientific Research: Hypotheses, Concepts, and Variables.”, “The Building Blocks of Scientific Research: Measurement.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 102-126; 127-164. Pollock, Philip H. “The Measurement of Concepts.”, “Explanations and Hypotheses” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 7-27; 28-50.

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October 22nd, Week 6: Satisfaction with Political Institutions: Measuring Multidimensional Concepts Required Readings: Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Combining Multiple Measures: Using Scaling Techniques.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 180-193. (BB) Putnam, Robert. 1993. “Measuring Institutional Performance” In Making Democracy Work. Princeton, NJ: Princeton. 63-82. (BB) Coppedge, Michael, Angel Alvarez and Claudia Maldonado. 2008. “Two Persistent Dimensions of Democracy: Contestation and Inclusiveness.” The Journal of Politics, 70(3): 632-647. (BB) Recommended Sources: Babbie, Earl and Lucia Benaquisto. 2010. “Indexes, Scales and Typologies.” In Fundamentals of Social Research, 2nd Edition. Toronto, ON: Nelson. 148-175. Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Analyses of Complex Differences and Relationships: Factor Analysis.” In Reading and Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 176-194. Nevitte, Neil, Andre Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil and Richard Nadeau. “Ideological Landscape.”, “Appendix B: Factor Analysis of Ideological Dimensions.” In Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election. 45-57; 138-142.

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October 29th, Week 7: Barriers to Electoral Participation in Central America: An Introduction into Describing the World Through Statistics

Required Readings: Francis, Chapter 4 Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Making Sense of Data: First Steps.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 354-395. (BB) Nevitte, Neil, Jose Cruz and Melissa Estok. 2008. Barriers to Electoral Participation in Guatemala: Diagnostic of 4 Municipalities. FLASCO. http://www.ndi.org/files/2328_gt_report_elec_061908.pdf Recommended Resources: Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Describing the Political World: Univariate Statistics.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 243-264. Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Statistics I: Summarizing Distributions on One Variable.”, “Tables and Charts: Visually Describing the Data.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 265-272; 278-289. Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Descriptive Statistics and Graphs.” In The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 104-119. National Democratic Institute. 2009. “The 2009 Nicaragua Democracy Survey.” http://www.ndi.org/files/Nicaragua_Democracy_Survey_2009.pdf Nevitte, Neil. 2009. “El Salvador 2009 Benchmark Democracy Survey: Initial Findings.” NDI. http://www.ndi.org/files/NDI_El_Salvador_2009_Benchmark_Democracy_Survey_ENG_0.pdf Nevitte, Neil. 2011. “Democracy in Honduras: Political Values and Civic Engagement in 2011.” NDI. http://www.ndi.org/files/Democracy-in-Honduras-2011.pdf

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November 5th, Week 8: Confidence in Politicians: What are the “True” feelings?: Using Sample Data to Infer About Populations Required Readings: Francis, Chapter 5 Pollock, Philip H. “Sampling and Inference.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 102-129. (BB) Recommended Sources: Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Assessing the Political World: Inferential Statistics.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 265-289. Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Sampling the Political World.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 154-176. Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Statistical Inference.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 396-427. Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Sampling.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 222-256. Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Statistical Inference.” In The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 120-133.

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November 19th, Week 9: How Men and Women Differ in Political Participation: Exploring Two-Variable Relationships Required Readings: Conover, Pamela Johnston. 1988. “Feminists and the Gender Gap” The Journal of Politics, 50(4): 985-1010. (BB) Campbell, David E. and Christina Wolbrecht. 2006. “See Jane Run: Women Politicians as Role Models for Adolescents.” The Journal of Politics, 68(2): 233-247. (BB) Hayes, Bernadette C. 2001. “Gender, Scientific Knowledge, and Attitudes toward the Environment: A Cross-National Analysis.” Political Research Quarterly, 54(3): 657-671. (BB) Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Statistics II: Examining Relationships between Two Variables.”, “Tables and Charts: Visually Describing the Data.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 273-277; 290-310. (BB) Recommended Sources: Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Investigating Relationships between Two Variables.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 428-526. Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Bivariate Hypothesis Testing.” In The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 139-150. Klass, Gary M. 2008. “Constructing Good Tables.”, “Creating Good Charts.” In Just Plain Data Analysis: Finding, Presenting, and Interpreting Social Science Data. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 33-48; 49-80. Pollock, Philip H. “Describing Variables and Making Comparisons”, “Tests of Significance and Measures of Association.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 51-76; 130-153. Russett, Bruce, Thomas Hartley and Shoon Murray. 1994. “The End of the Cold War, Attitude Change, and the Politics of Defense Spending.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 27(1): 17-21. Sniderman, Paul M., Joseph Fletcher, Peter H. Russell, Philip E. Tetlock and Brian J. Gaines. 1991. “The Fallacy of Democratic Elitism: Elite Competition and Commitment to Civil Liberties.” British Journal of Political Science, 21(3): 349-370. Wills, Jeremiah B. and Maxine P. Atkinson. 2007. “Table Reading Skills as Quantitative Literacy.” Teaching Sociology, 35(3): 255-263. Zhong, Yang, Jie Chen and John M. Scheb II. 1997. “Political Views from Below: A Survey of Beijing Residents.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 30(3): 474-482.

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November 26th, Week 10: Canada an Outlier? Predictors of Support for Immigration: Correlation and Regression Analysis

**ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE** Required Readings: Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Analyses of Relationships: Correlation.”, “Analyses of Relationships: Regression.” In Reading and Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 131-146; 147-157. (BB) Pollock, Philip H. “Correlation and Linear Regression.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 154-178. (BB) Lindner, Andrew M. 2012. “Teaching Quantitative Literacy Through a Regression Analysis of Exam Performance.” Teaching Sociology, 40: 50-59. (BB) Reitz, Jeffrey. 2011. “Pro-Immigration Canada: Social and Economic Roots of Popular Views.” IRPP Study, no. 20. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2011. http://www.irpp.org/pubs/IRPPstudy/IRPP_Study_no20.pdf Sides, John and Jack Citrin. 2007. “European Opinion About Immigration: The Role of Identities, Interests and Information.” British Journal of Political Science, 37: 477-504. (BB) Recommended Readings: Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Multivariate Analysis: An Introduction to the Deep End of the Pool.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 323-348. Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Statistics III: Examining Relationships among Several Variables.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 311-323. Guber, Deborah Lynn. 2003. “Distribution: Is Environmentalism Elitist?” In The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment. Cambridge, MASS: MIT Press. 71-88. Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel. 2010. “Changing Mass Priorities: The Link between Modernization and Democracy.” Perspectives on Politics, 8(2): 551-567. Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Multivariate Analysis.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 527-549. Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Analyses of Relationships: Multiple Regression.” In Reading and Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 158-170. Nadeau, Richard. 2002. “Satisfaction with Democracy: The Canadian Paradox.” In Neil Nevitte (ed.), Value Change and Governance in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 37-70.

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December 3rd, Week 11: Explaining Why People Vote: Regression Extensions and Logistic Regression Required Reading: Gidengil, Elisabeth, Neil Nevitte, Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt and Patrick Fornier. 2012. “Explaining Vote Choice.”, “Appendix A-C.” In Dominance & Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections. 1-18; 187-202. (BB) Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth. 2010. “Who Votes for Women Candidates and Why? Evidence from Recent Canadian Elections.” In Cameron Anderson and Laura Stephenson (eds), Voting Behaviour in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press. 43-64. (BB) Pollock, Philip H. “Logistic Regression.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 179-202. (BB) Recommended Sources: Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Categorical Variables and Linear Models.”, “Logistic Regression” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 550-567; 568-589. Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Multiple Regression Models II: Crucial Extensions.” In The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 202-243. Norris, Pippa. 2002. “New Social Movements, Protest Politics, and the Internet.” In Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism. Cambridge University Press. 188-212.

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December 5th, Week 12: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Ethics in Quantitative Research **REPORT DUE**

Required Readings/Video: Francis, Chapter 2 p. 47-55 Bouma, Gary D., Rod Ling, and Lori Wilkinson. 2009. “Ethics in Human Research.” In The Research Process, Canadian Edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford. 142-160. (BB) Haggerty, Kevin D. 2004. “Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics.” Qualitative Sociology, 27(4): 391-414. (BB) Zimbardo, Philip. 1992. “Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment.” (in class video) Recommended Readings: Bracey, Gerald W. 2006. “Introduction” In Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, xi-xx. Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Research Ethics: People Behind the Numbers.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 96-120. Babbie, Earl and Lucia Benaquisto. 2010. “Ethical Issues for Social Researchers.” In Fundamentals of Social Research, 2nd Edition. Toronto: Nelson. 58-76.