| Description |
Seminarsprache: ENGLISCH
Lektüre: 100% Englisch
Modern welfare states exhibit remarkable differences in their provision of social security. These differences can be empirically assessed with the help of macro-quantative studies. However, there is no single theoretical approach that can explain substantial variation in social security provision within welfare states in general. Thus, the seminar focuses on multiple x-centered explanatory approaches (i.e. socio-economic mechanisms, power resource and partisan theory, institutional explanations, and internationalization) that describe varying degrees of welfare generosity and overall effort in social expenditures.
The aim of the seminar is enable students to conduct an empirical policy analysis and to learn how to write a term paper in comparative politics. Students will be instructed on i) how to formulate a research question, ii) literature search and subsequent listing in an annotated bibliograhpy, iii) explicate theoretical arguments and deduct hypotheses, iv) search for data in multiple sources, v) conducting non-inferential description of data, vi) carrying out empirical analyses, and vii) authoring an empirical study. Term papers should focus on explicating a single causal mechanism that influences welfare policies to a certain degree with the help of statistical analysis. |
| Literature |
Baglione, L. A. (2015). Writing a research paper in political science: A practical guide to inquiry, structure, and methods. CQ Press.
Castles, F. G., Leibfried, S., Lewis, J., Obinger, H., and Pierson, C. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press.
Miller, J. E. (2013). The Chicago guide to writing about multivariate analysis. University of Chicago Press. |
