Students will learn how to identify and operationalize concepts in international policy analysis. They will also learn how to make proper causal inferences, construct testable hypotheses, and execute a research design.
1) Principles of Social Science 2) Measuring Policy Outcomes 3) Sources of Measurement Error 4) Concept Formation in Policy Studies 5) Theory Testing 6) Hypothesis Construction 7) Qualitative Approaches 8) Quantitative Approaches 9) Research Design 10) Program Evaluation