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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 |
- Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
- Della Porta, D., & Keating, M. (2008). Approaches and methodologies in the social sciences: A pluralist perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Gerring, J. (2012). Social science methodology: A unified framework (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Halperin, S., & Heath, O. (2020). Political research: Methods and practical skills. Oxford: Oxford 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/New York: Taylor & Francis.
- Toshkov, D. (2016). Research design in political science. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
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