Quantitative Analyse

• (optional:) Clarke, Kevin A. und Curtis S. Signorino 2010. Discriminating Methods: Tests”for Nonnested Discrete Choice Models.“ Political Studies 58(2): 368–388.12. Spatial Models (14. Januar)Texte im Reader: (50 Seiten)• Franzese, Robert C. und Jude C. Hays. 2007. Spatial Econometric Models of Cross-”Sectional Interdependence in Political Science Panel and Time-Series-Cross-Section Data.“Political Analysis 15(2): 140–164.• Plümper, Thomas und Eric Neumayer. 2010. Model Specification in the Analysis of Spatial”Dependence.“ European Journal of Political Research 49: 418–442.13. Methoden der kausalen Inferenz (21. Januar)Texte im Reader: (48 Seiten)• Rosenbaum, Paul R. 2010. Design of Observational Studies. New York, NY: Springer, S.237–248 (Kapitel 13 – Matching in R“).”• Goldacre, Ben. 2011. The Statistical Error That Just Keeps on Coming.“ The Guardian,”9. (13.) September, verfügbar online via http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/09/bad-science-research-error (Zugriff am 15.09.2011).• Angrist, Joshua D. und Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2009. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: AnEmpiricist’s Companion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, S. 227–243, 251–267(Kapitel 5.2 – Differences-in-Differences: Pre and Post, Treatment and Control“, Kapitel”6 – Getting A Little Jumpy: Regression Discontinuity Designs“).”14. Statistik und Kausalität II (28. Januar)Texte im Reader: (52 Seiten)• Johnson, James. 2006. Consequences of Positivism: A Pragmatist Assessment.“ ComparativePolitical Studies 39(2): 224–252.”• Freedman, David A. 1991. Statistical Models and Shoe Leather.“ Sociological Methodology”21: 291–313.6