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Learning outcomes |
The aim of this curricular unit is to supply students with a thorough understanding of the scientific area of Political Science, familiarizing them with the relevant epistemology. This goal is achieved by the enunciation of research questions through appropriate conceptual tools and by the presentation of the variety of methodological approaches accessible and their theoretical and practical implications. The aim is thus to enable students to make appropriate methodological choices supported on a consolidated background, and capacitate them to initiate, carry out and, finally, evaluate, with high degree of autonomy, methodological operations in the context of scientific research.
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Main Bibliography |
Cohen, R. S. & Wartofsky, M. W., eds. (1983). Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Ethridge, M. E., ed. (2002). The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Gerring, J. (2012). Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework (2nd edition). New York: Cambridge University Press.
King, G; Keohane, R; & Verba, S. (1994). Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Malici, A. & Smith, E., eds. (2012). Political Science Research In Practice. London/NY: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Olivier, L.; Bédard, G; & Thibault, J.-F., eds. (1998), Épistémologie de la science politique. Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Shapiro, I.; Smith, R. M.; & Masoud, T. E., eds. (2004), Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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