Week 8

Agenda 3/4

1. Lit Review feedback & grades will be published this afternoon
   1. 1 point curve on the rubric = actual grades will be ~4% higher.
   2. Curve will be reflected in your LR grade in the Brightspace gradebook (not on the LR assignment page, which reflects raw score w/o curve)

1. Small-N Studies: Comparative & Case Study Design
   1. What are the major variations of comparative and case study design?
   2. How are small-N comparative studies designed?
   3. What are the drawbacks to small-N designs?

Agenda 3/6

1. Comparative & Case study research
   1. Single-case studies
   2. What are the drawbacks to small-N designs?
2. Hurd (2005) - “The Strategic Use of Liberal Internationalism: Libya and the UN Sanctions, 1992-2003” & Ross (2004) - “How Do Natural Resources Influence Civil War?
   1. For Ross: What are the cases?
   2. For Hurd: What is the case?
   3. How do the authors justify their case selection?
   4. For Ross: Does Ross use a most-similar or most-different research design?
   5. For Hurd: Is Hurd theory-testing or theory-building?
   6. What’s the outcome of interest (DV)?
      1. What are the explanatory variables(IVs)?
   7. What are the main findings from the author’s research?
      1. How do the authors explain their study’s contribution to literature?
3. Review Concepts & Measurements assignment guidelines in course docs

Agenda 3/8

1. Concepts & Measurements Assignment guidelines
2. Data, fact Finding and Multi-purpose Resources
3. Workshop
   1. What challenges are you facing with your research project?
   2. What are the next actions for your research project?
   3. What is a goal for your project that you hope to accomplish by the end of spring break?