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Methods Advice

In addition to the supervisor, researchers may need advice on specific methodological issues. Here is a list of the specific skills offered within the faculty.

 

Rainer Bauböck

  • Normative political theory
  • Applied normative and comparative analysis of public policies

Fabrizio Bernardi

  • Multivariate analysis of survey data
  • Event history analysis
  • Statistical models and causal inference

László Bruszt

  • Qualitative methods, survey research

Pepper Culpepper

  • Research Design
  • Empirical Studies of Mechanisms of Causation
  • Interviewing Elites
  • Operationalization and Measurement of Ideational Theories
  • Creative Ways of Getting More Empirical Leverage out of Case Studies

Donatella della Porta

  • Qualitative methods: in-depth interviews, focus groups and life histories, participant observation
  • Quantitative techniques on discourse analysis, protest events, surveys, semi-structured interviews
  • Developing codebooks and questionnaires

Adrienne Héritier

  • Methodology / research design questions in causal analytical research
  • Methods / tools: conducting interviews, data structuring, document analysis

Martin Kohli

  • Survey research, including panel data
  • Comparative surveys
  • Biographical methods

Christian Reus-Smit

  • International relations theory
  • Social and political theory
  • Interpretative and historical methods (particularly, macro-historical approaches)
  • Relationship between politics and law in international relations
  • The politics of ethics and legitimacy
  • International institutional theory and history

Olivier Roy

  • Field work in different societies and countries
  • plan B: when methodology does NOT seem to work

Sven Steinmo

  • Case studies
  • Process tracing
  • Interview techniques

Pascal Vennesson

  • Comparative case studies
  • Process tracing
  • Counterfactuals
  • Historical case studies

Page last updated on 08 November 2011

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