Research and Methods Symposium

Introduction

Vita

Teaching

Research

Methods Symposium

WSU Political Science

The Research and Methods Symposium is a venue for faculty and graduate students to present their research, with a particular focus on methodological issues, both quantitative and qualitative.

Spring Semester 2008

January 28 , 1:30 p.m.: Sharing Data Through the WSU Dataverse, Travis Ridout, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

March 24 , 1:30 p.m.: "Saving Nature and Growing Crops in Uzbekistan: Applying QCA to Explain Policy Outcomes," Claire Metelits and Ed Weber, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

Fall Semester 2007

November 13, 1:30 p.m.: "Doin' Time: Applying ARIMA Time-Series Models to the Social Sciences," Katie Searles, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

Slides

September 25 : "The Comparative Agendas Project," Sylvain Brouard, 12 noon, 8th Floor Conference Room.

Outline

Spring Semester 2007

January 26th: "Goodbye Welfare Queens, Hello Working Moms," Carly Hayden Foster, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

Slides

March 23rd : "A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research," Gary Goertz, University of Arizona, 4 p.m., CUE 518.

Article

Fall Semester 2006

October 9th: "Innovations in Survey Research: The Case of the British Elections Survey," Harold Clarke and Marianne Stewart, University of Texas-Dallas, 12 noon, CUE 518.

Spring Semester 2006

March 10th: "Developing Computer Code for Content Analysis of Documents," Robbie Stone, 11 a.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

March 31st: "Fight the Future: Methods and Problems of Forecasting Correctional Populations," Jeff Rosky, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Fall Semester 2005

September 23rd: "A Multilevel Analysis of the Vulnerability, Disorder, and Social Integration Models Across Multiple Dimensions of Fear of Crime." Noelle Fearn, Travis Franklin, and Cortney Franklin, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Talk Outline

October 12th : "Doing Cross-National Survey Research: The SAGE Project." Travis Ridout and Andrew Appleton, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

November 9th : Title TBA, Nick Lovrich, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Spring Semester 2005

January 28th: "Measures Matter: Assessing Measures of Campaign Tone," Travis Ridout, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides

February 25th : TBA, Travis Pratt, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

April 1st : "Differences in the Measurement of the Dependent Variable: Does the Specificity of Type of Incarceration Really Matter?," Noelle Fearn, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Talk Outline

April 22nd: "Quandaries of Mixed Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Using Mixed Archival and Statistical Methods to Decipher Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion," Brandon Rottinghaus (U Idaho), 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides

Fall Semester 2004

September 17th: "Assessing Indirect Effects: The Case of IQ and Delinquency," Travis Pratt, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

October 1st: "Executive Popularity in France: The Promise and Pitfalls of Time Series Data," Andrew Appleton, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides

November 5th: "Pubertal Development, Choice of Friends, and Smoking Initiation among Adolescent Males," Laurie Drapela, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Tables, Figure, Slides

December 3rd : "Approaches to Small 'n' Research: Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to the Women's Policy Office Project," Amy Mazur, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides, Sources

Spring Semester 2004

January 21st: "It's Ruining My Christmas! Measuring Exposure to Political Ads on Television," Travis Ridout, 12:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

February 18th: "Racial Profiling; Methodological Concerns, Analytical Choices, Normative Implications," Mitch Pickerill, 12:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

March 10th: "Quantifying the Study of the British Prime Minister: Beyond the Maggie's Handbag Paradigm," Stephen Dyson, 12:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Fall Semester 2003

December 4th: "Maternal Cigarette Smoking and Criminal/Deviant Behavior: A Meta-Analysis," Travis Pratt, 4 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.