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Learning outcomes |
This curricular unit aims to provide the capacities to reflect and analyse research programs and paradigms in Political Science, in order to ensure the quality of scientific debate.
It will provide the necessary tools for scientific autonomy in planning and developing original research, particularly regarding the identification and critical analysis of literature related to each research project.
This curricular unit will ensure a throughout understanding of the diversity of research programmes, enabling students to apply them accordingly to their research needs. Thus, it will enable doctoral students to obtain a comprehensive and theoretically supported perspective, and to select the appropriate research tools. It will be complemented with the main debates within the different areas of this PhD programme, in order to frame research questions and enable the development of projects that will contribute to knowledge.
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Main Bibliography |
Chalmers, A. (2013). What is this Thing Called Science?, 4th ed. Milton Keynes: Open University Press
Gibbons, M.T., ed. (1987). Interpreting Politics. Oxford: Blackwell
Gomes, W.; Maia, R. (2008), Comunicação e Democracia: Problemas e Perspetivas, São Paulo, Paulus.
Goodin, R. & Klingemann, H., eds. (1996). A New Handbook of Political Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press
King, G. (1989). Unifying Political Methodology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
March, J. & Olsen, J. (1989). Rediscovering Institutions. New York: Free Press
Margolis, M. & Resnick, D. (2000). Politics as Usual: The cyberspace “Revolution”. Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications.
Marsh, D. & Stoker, G. (2010). Theory and Methods in Political Science, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Peters, B. . (2011). Institutional Theory in Political Science, 3rd ed. London: Pinter
Rosenau, P.M. (1992). Post-modernism and the Social Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press
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