Learn how to design, implement, and integrate diverse data collection and analysis techniques – ranging from in-depth interviews and focus groups to surveys and statistical modelling.
Get introduced to the core principles of political ethnography. You'll learn ethnographic methods and writing, research design, quality and ethics, and gain practical experience in studying politics and power in a range of contexts.
Familiarise yourself with the long history of populist phenomena as well as with the various attempts by political research to map, interpret and theorise them diachronically, with emphasis on the limitations of mainstream approaches.
Learn about when process tracing can be used and how it can be applied most effectively. Experience the key aspects of process tracing through practical, hands-on advice and techniques that can be applied in your own research project.
Learn to understand political science literatures using common quantitative text analysis approaches and how to interpret the results with the most common methods used by social scientists.
