MCP – Method Coordination Project

• Focus Groups
• Interviewing
• Oral Histories
• Storing and Sharing Data
• Survey Research
  • Examples; Survey Research
• Causality, General
  • Examples; Causality, General
• Qualitative Techniques
  • Qualitative Data Analysis, General/Software
  • Case Studies
    • Examples; Case Studies
  • Process Tracing
    • Examples; Process Tracing
  • Interpretivism
    • Examples; Interpretivism
  • Discourse and Other Textual Analysis
  • Comparative Historical Analysis, Historical Institutionalism, Temporality
    • Examples; Comparative Historical Analysis, Historical Institutionalism, Temporality
  • Counterfactual Analysis
    • Examples; Counterfactual Analysis
      • What Caused the Holocaust?
      • What Was the Cause of 9/11?
      • Why Did Bush Win the 2004 Presidential Election?
  • Critical Junctures and Path Dependence
    • Critical Junctures
      • Examples; Critical Junctures
    • Path Dependence
      • Examples; Path Dependence
  • (Fuzzy) Set Relations and QCA
    • Examples; (Fuzzy) Set Relations and QCA
• Quantitative Techniques
  • Experimental and Nonexperimental Analyses Compared
  • Experiments
    • Examples; Experiments
      • Does Curriculum Affect Behavior?
      • How Pliable Are People?
  • Natural Experiments
    • Examples; Natural Experiments
  • Instrumental Variables Design
    • Examples; Instrumental Variables Design
  • Regression Discontinuity Designs
    • Examples; Regression Discontinuity Designs
  • Quantitative Political Geography
    • Examples; Quantitative Political Geography
  • Spatial Methods
    • Examples; Spatial Methods
  • Computational Statistics
    • Examples; Computational Statistics
  • Large N Observational Analysis – Critiques and Defenses
    • Examples; Large N Observational Analysis – Critiques and Defenses
  • Latent Variable Models for Scaling and Clustering
  • Linear, Generalized Linear, and Hierarchical Models
    • Examples; Linear, Generalized Linear, and Hierarchical Models
  • Longitudinal and Time Series Analysis
  • Matching Methods
  • Missing Data
  • Text Analysis
    • Examples; Text Analysis
• Techniques and Questions in Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
  • Bayesian Approaches
    • Examples; Bayesian Approaches
  • Causal Mechanisms
    • Examples; Causal Mechanisms
  • Reaching Consensus, Multi-Method Research, Qualitative vs. Quantitative
    • Examples; Reaching Consensus, Multi-Method Research, Qualitative vs. Quantitative
• Data Visualization
• Information
  • Examples; Information
• Replication
• Secondary Data Analysis
• Transparency/Openness Debate
• Using Qualitative Data Sources
• Philosophy of Science, Post-Structuralism
• General Treatments
• Logical Positivism and Fellow Travelers
• Popper and Company…
• Kuhn
• Lakatos
• Realism
• Critical Theory
  • Examples; Critical Theory
• Feminism
• Other Radical Critiques
• Social Science versus Natural Science
• Sociology of Science
• Social Science/Political Praxis, Value-Neutrality
  • Examples; Social Science/Political Praxis, Value-Neutrality
• Career Advice
• Writing and Publishing