University of Toronto
Political Science Department
Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning
POL322H1F
Fall 2012, SF1105 6-8pm
Course Description:
The aim of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the
principles of quantitative methodology, including essential elements of research design, data
analysis and data presentation employed in quantitative research. The course places particular
emphasis on evaluating and interpreting quantitative research, rather than merely conducting
statistical calculations. Although much of the course is devoted to the statistical methods used in
political science, such research skills may be extended to a wide variety of academic and nonacademic settings.
Instructor: Michael Painter-Main
Office: Sidney Smith Hall, Room SS3118
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm
Phone: TBD
Email: m.painter.main@utoronto.ca
Teaching Assistant: Alejandro García Magos
The TA will serve two primary roles: mark assignments and act as a contact for student questions
and concerns. TA office hours and email access will start in week four. Office hour time and
location TBD.
Required Readings:
Dane, Francis C. 2011. Evaluating Research: Methodology for People Who Need to Read
Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Other readings will be denoted as either available on Blackboard or via the UofT library’s online
journal catalog.
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Course Assignments and Marking Scheme
1. Quizzes - 15%
Throughout the course, students will be evaluated through quizzes. Grades will be determined
through three quizzes (5% each) testing student knowledge on course readings and lecture
material.
2. Assignment #1- 15%, due October 15th
For this assignment, students are expected to choose and analyze two political science
articles/chapters with similar research frameworks. The objective is to compare, contrast and
critique the two articles based on the research design utilized. The paper should be no longer
than 3 pages (double spaced).
3. Assignment #2- 30%, due November 26th
This assignment asks students to evaluate three articles that revolve around the measurement of
an issue in political science. The assignment involves a 5 page discussion of what was done,
what was found, as well as an evaluation of the validity and reliability of the measure employed.
4. Report- 40%, due December 5th
For this report, students are asked to develop a paper (8-10 pages, not including bibliography,
tables and figures) on a topic in the political science literature that utilizes regression analysis.
Students will be able to choose from a list of appropriate topics. The report will consist of a clear
and focused literature review, which concentrates on the discussion and analysis of the
quantitative research utilized. The objective of this report is to further develop students’ skills
and comfort level in the comprehension of quantitative research and the ability to describe data.
Late Penalties: All assignments/reports are due at the beginning of class. Once lecture has
begun, they are deemed late. Emailed assignments will not be accepted. Extensions will only be
granted with appropriate documentation (e.g., a medical note). Late papers can be handed in at
the political science office (SS3018). Late penalties are 5% per day (including weekends). The
maximum late penalty is 30% (one week late) after which the assignment will not be accepted.
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Guidelines for Assignment/Report:
1. Students are strongly advised to keep rough and draft work and hard copies of their essays and
assignments before handing them in to the TA/Instructor/Department. These should be kept until
the marked assignments have been returned and the grades posted on ROSI.
2. There will be no extensions beyond the due date of an assignment without a certificate from
your physician.
3. Please familiarize yourself with the university’s policy on plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious
academic offense and will be dealt with accordingly. For further clarification and information on
plagiarism, please see Writing at the University of Toronto http://www.utoronto.ca/advice/usingsources. Assignments and reports are to be written specifically for this course. You should not
use another person’s words or ideas without attribution, whether those words or ideas come from
conversations (including Internet chat rooms or study groups), a web site, or printed materials. If
in doubt as to proper procedure, consult the lecturer or your teaching assistant. The only safe
policy is to cite fully all sources of whatever kind.
4. Normally, students will be required to submit their course report to Turnitin.com for a review
of textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their
essays to be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database, where they
will be used solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. The terms that apply to the
University’s use of the Turnitin.com service are described on the Turnitin.com web site. Use of
Turnitin.com is voluntary and students not wishing to use it will be asked to hand over all notes
and rough drafts of their work.
Accessibility Needs:
The University of Toronto is committed to accessibility. If you require accommodations for a
disability or have any accessibility concerns related to the course, the classroom or the course
materials, please contact Accessibility Services at: accessibility.services@utoronto.ca or
http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/.
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Course Outline and Reading Schedule
(Blackboard Readings indicated by (BB))
September 10th, Week 1: Money, Happiness and Crime Rates: A Foray into Quantitative
Research
Required Readings:
Francis, Chapter 1
O’Connell, Michael. 1999. “Is Irish Public Opinion towards Crime Distorted by Media Bias?”
European Journal of Communications, 14: 191-212. (BB)
Quoidbach, Jordi, Elizabeth W. Dunn, K.V. Petrides and Moira Mikolajczak. 2010. “Money
Giveth, Money Taketh Away: The Dual Effect of Wealth on Happiness.” Psychological Science,
20(10): 1-5. (BB)
Boyce, Christopher J., Gordon D.A. Brown and Simon C. Moore. 2010. “Money and Happiness:
Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction.” Psychological Science, 21(4): 471-475.
(BB)
Recommended Sources:
Best, Joel. 2001. “The Importance of Social Statistics.” In Damned Lies and Statistics:
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 9-29.
Bellos, Alex. 2010. “A Head for Numbers.” In Here’s Looking at Euclid. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1-22.
Oishi, Shigehiro, Ed Diener, Richard E. Lucas and Eunkook M. Suh. 2002. “Cross-Cultural
Variations in Predictors of Life Satisfaction: Perspectives from Needs and Values.” Social
Indicators Research, 57(2): 119-169.
Picot, Garnett. 2003. “Does Statistical Analysis Matter?” Horizons, 6(1): 6-10.
Roberts, Julian V. 1992. “Public Opinion, Crime and Criminal Justice.” Crime and Justice, 16:
99-180.
Rosling, Hans. 2006. “Stats That Reshape Your World-View.” Technology, Entertainment,
Design (TED) Talks.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Williams, Frederick. 1992. “Why do Quantitative Research?” In Reasoning with Statistics: How
to Read Quantitative Research, 4th Edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College
Publishers, 3-9.
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September 17th, Week 2: Why People Loath Group Work and Why the Middle Class is
Essential to Democracy: Exploring the Science of Quantitative Research
Required Readings:
Francis, Chapter 2
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “The Scientific Approach to Politics.” In Explorations:
Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University
Press. 3-27. (BB)
Harris, Daniel. 2012. “The Free Rider: Collective Action Failures in Cycling and Beyond.
Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
http://www.odi.org.uk/opinion/details.asp?id=6718&title=collective-action-internationaldevelopment-policy-cycling-london-2012-olympics
Fukuyama, Francis. 2012. “The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive the Decline
of the Middle Class?” Foreign Affairs, 91(1): 53. (BB)
Recommended Sources:
Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Research as
a Process.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 1-15.
Fukuyama, Francis and Gideon Rose. 2012. “Foreign Affairs Live: The Future of History”
Foreign Affairs, Video: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/discussions/audio-video/foreign-affairslive-the-future-of-history
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “The Empirical Approach to Political
Science.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 3373.
Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “The Scientific Study of Politics.” In The
Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 1-21.
King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba. “The Science of Social Science” In
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton University
Press, 7-11.
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September 24th, Week 3: Campaign Literature and Persuasion: Types of Research
Methods in Quantitative Literature
Required Readings:
Francis, Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11
Brown, Steven D.; Perrella, Andrea M.L.; and Kay, Barry J., "Revisiting Local Campaign
Effects: An Experiment Involving Literature Mail Drops in the 2007 Ontario Election" (2010).
Political Science Faculty Publications. Paper 13. http://scholars.wlu.ca/poli_faculty/13
Peter John Loewen and Daniel Rubenson. 2011. "For Want of a Nail: Direct Mail and Negative
Persuasion in a Leadership Campaign," Party Politics, 17(1), 45-65.
http://www.politics.ryerson.ca/rubenson/downloads/iggy.pdf
Recommended Sources:
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Experiments.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical
Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 200-211.
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Observing the Political World: Survey Research.” In
Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford
University Press. 177-192.
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Content Analysis.” In Explorations: Conducting
Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 212-222.
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Making Empirical Observations: Direct and
Indirect Observation.”, “Survey Research and Interviewing.” In Political Science Research
Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 257-277; 306-353.
Kamil, Michael L. 2004. “The Current State of Quantitative Research.” Reading Research
Quarterly, 39(1): 100-107.
Kellstedt, Lyman and James Guth. 2013. “Survey Research: Religion and Electoral Behavior in
the United States, 1936-2008. In Akan Malici and Elizabeth S. Smith (eds.), Political Science
Research in Practice. New York: Routledge. 93-109.
Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Quantitative
Research Designs.” In Reading and Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA:
Sage, 89-108.
Loewen, Peter, Daniel Rubenson and Leonard Wantchekon. 2010. "Help Me Help You:
Conducting Field Experiments With Political Elites," The Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, 628(1): 189-99.
http://www.politics.ryerson.ca/rubenson/downloads/ANNALS351522_Rev.pdf
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October 1st, Week 4: Do Canadians Want a Census? Quantitative Data and Article
Structure
Required Readings:
Francis, Chapter 3
Pantoja, Adrian D. and Sarah Allen Gershon. “Statistical Research: To Naturalize or Not to
Naturalize?” In Akan Malici and Elizabeth S. Smith (eds.), Political Science Research in
Practice. New York: Routledge. 76-92. (BB)
Angus Reid. 2010. “Majority of Canadians Support Move to Reinstate Long Form Census.”
http://www.angus-reid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010.10.06_Census_CAN.pdf
Creekside. 2010. “While You Were Sleeping…The G&M Census Poll.”
http://creekside1.blogspot.ca/2010/07/while-you-were-sleeping-g-census-poll.html
Yalnizyan, Armine. 2010. “The Globe’s Experiment in Census-Taking.” The Progressive
Economics Forum. http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/18/the-globe%E2%80%99sexperiment-in-census-taking/
Ditchburn, Jennifer. 2010. “U.S. Tested Then Scrapped Voluntary Census.” Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/us-tested-then-scrapped-voluntarycensus/article1645137/
Chase, Steven. 2010. “Government Study Reveals Significant Errors in Voluntary Census.”
Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/government-study-revealssignificant-errors-in-voluntary-census/article1700566/
Recommended Sources:
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Writing the Report.” In Explorations: Conducting
Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 358-368.
Best, Joel. 2001. “Soft Facts: Sources of Bad Statistics.” In Damned Lies and Statistics:
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 30-61.
Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “The
Research Report: Diagramming a Sample Article.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth
Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 377-391.
Goldacre, Ben. 2011. “Battling Bad Science.” TED Talks.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “The Research Report: An Annotated
Example.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
594-616.
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Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “The Research
Report.”, “How to Select and Read Research Reports.” In Reading and Understanding Research,
3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 3-22; 53-70.
Shermer, Michael. 2006. “Why People Believe Weird Things.” TED Talks.
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html
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October 15th, Week 5: Democracy is about Elections, Right?: Measuring Political Concepts
and Why it Matters
**ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE**
Required Readings:
Francis, Chapter 6
Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Measurement.” In The Fundamentals of Political
Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 86-103. (BB)
Paxton, Pamela. 2000. “Women’s Suffrage in the Measurement of Democracy: Problems of
Operationalization.” Studies in Comparative International Development, 35(3): 92-111. (BB)
Recommended Sources:
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Defining the Political World: Measures.” In
Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford
University Press. 67-92.
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Defining the Political World: Concepts.” In
Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford
University Press. 48-66.
Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “From
Abstract to Concrete: Operationalization and Measurement.” In Empirical Political Analysis,
Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 88-116.
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “The Building Blocks of Scientific Research:
Hypotheses, Concepts, and Variables.”, “The Building Blocks of Scientific Research:
Measurement.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
102-126; 127-164.
Pollock, Philip H. “The Measurement of Concepts.”, “Explanations and Hypotheses” In The
Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 7-27; 28-50.
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October 22nd, Week 6: Satisfaction with Political Institutions: Measuring Multidimensional
Concepts
Required Readings:
Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Combining
Multiple Measures: Using Scaling Techniques.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition.
Boston, MASS: Longman. 180-193. (BB)
Putnam, Robert. 1993. “Measuring Institutional Performance” In Making Democracy Work.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton. 63-82. (BB)
Coppedge, Michael, Angel Alvarez and Claudia Maldonado. 2008. “Two Persistent Dimensions
of Democracy: Contestation and Inclusiveness.” The Journal of Politics, 70(3): 632-647. (BB)
Recommended Sources:
Babbie, Earl and Lucia Benaquisto. 2010. “Indexes, Scales and Typologies.” In Fundamentals
of Social Research, 2nd Edition. Toronto, ON: Nelson. 148-175.
Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Analyses of
Complex Differences and Relationships: Factor Analysis.” In Reading and Understanding
Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 176-194.
Nevitte, Neil, Andre Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil and Richard Nadeau. “Ideological Landscape.”,
“Appendix B: Factor Analysis of Ideological Dimensions.” In Unsteady State: The 1997
Canadian Federal Election. 45-57; 138-142.
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October 29th, Week 7: Barriers to Electoral Participation in Central America: An
Introduction into Describing the World Through Statistics
Required Readings:
Francis, Chapter 4
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Making Sense of Data: First Steps.” In
Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 354-395. (BB)
Nevitte, Neil, Jose Cruz and Melissa Estok. 2008. Barriers to Electoral Participation in
Guatemala: Diagnostic of 4 Municipalities. FLASCO.
http://www.ndi.org/files/2328_gt_report_elec_061908.pdf
Recommended Resources:
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Describing the Political World: Univariate Statistics.”
In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto:
Oxford University Press. 243-264.
Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Statistics I:
Summarizing Distributions on One Variable.”, “Tables and Charts: Visually Describing the
Data.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 265-272; 278289.
Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Descriptive Statistics and Graphs.” In The
Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 104-119.
National Democratic Institute. 2009. “The 2009 Nicaragua Democracy Survey.”
http://www.ndi.org/files/Nicaragua_Democracy_Survey_2009.pdf
Nevitte, Neil. 2009. “El Salvador 2009 Benchmark Democracy Survey: Initial Findings.” NDI.
http://www.ndi.org/files/NDI_El_Salvador_2009_Benchmark_Democracy_Survey_ENG_0.pdf
Nevitte, Neil. 2011. “Democracy in Honduras: Political Values and Civic Engagement in 2011.”
NDI. http://www.ndi.org/files/Democracy-in-Honduras-2011.pdf
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November 5th, Week 8: Confidence in Politicians: What are the “True” feelings?: Using
Sample Data to Infer About Populations
Required Readings:
Francis, Chapter 5
Pollock, Philip H. “Sampling and Inference.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition.
Washington, DC: CQ Press. 102-129. (BB)
Recommended Sources:
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Assessing the Political World: Inferential Statistics.”
In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto:
Oxford University Press. 265-289.
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Sampling the Political World.” In Explorations:
Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford University
Press. 154-176.
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Statistical Inference.” In Political Science
Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 396-427.
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Sampling.” In Political Science Research
Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 222-256.
Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Statistical Inference.” In The Fundamentals of
Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 120-133.
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November 19th, Week 9: How Men and Women Differ in Political Participation: Exploring
Two-Variable Relationships
Required Readings:
Conover, Pamela Johnston. 1988. “Feminists and the Gender Gap” The Journal of Politics,
50(4): 985-1010. (BB)
Campbell, David E. and Christina Wolbrecht. 2006. “See Jane Run: Women Politicians as Role
Models for Adolescents.” The Journal of Politics, 68(2): 233-247. (BB)
Hayes, Bernadette C. 2001. “Gender, Scientific Knowledge, and Attitudes toward the
Environment: A Cross-National Analysis.” Political Research Quarterly, 54(3): 657-671. (BB)
Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Statistics II:
Examining Relationships between Two Variables.”, “Tables and Charts: Visually Describing the
Data.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 273-277; 290310. (BB)
Recommended Sources:
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Investigating Relationships between Two
Variables.” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
428-526.
Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Bivariate Hypothesis Testing.” In The
Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press, 139-150.
Klass, Gary M. 2008. “Constructing Good Tables.”, “Creating Good Charts.” In Just Plain Data
Analysis: Finding, Presenting, and Interpreting Social Science Data. New York: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers. 33-48; 49-80.
Pollock, Philip H. “Describing Variables and Making Comparisons”, “Tests of Significance and
Measures of Association.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC:
CQ Press. 51-76; 130-153.
Russett, Bruce, Thomas Hartley and Shoon Murray. 1994. “The End of the Cold War, Attitude
Change, and the Politics of Defense Spending.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 27(1): 17-21.
Sniderman, Paul M., Joseph Fletcher, Peter H. Russell, Philip E. Tetlock and Brian J. Gaines.
1991. “The Fallacy of Democratic Elitism: Elite Competition and Commitment to Civil
Liberties.” British Journal of Political Science, 21(3): 349-370.
Wills, Jeremiah B. and Maxine P. Atkinson. 2007. “Table Reading Skills as Quantitative
Literacy.” Teaching Sociology, 35(3): 255-263.
Zhong, Yang, Jie Chen and John M. Scheb II. 1997. “Political Views from Below: A Survey of
Beijing Residents.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 30(3): 474-482.
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November 26th, Week 10: Canada an Outlier? Predictors of Support for Immigration:
Correlation and Regression Analysis
**ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE**
Required Readings:
Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Analyses of
Relationships: Correlation.”, “Analyses of Relationships: Regression.” In Reading and
Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 131-146; 147-157. (BB)
Pollock, Philip H. “Correlation and Linear Regression.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis,
2nd Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 154-178. (BB)
Lindner, Andrew M. 2012. “Teaching Quantitative Literacy Through a Regression Analysis of
Exam Performance.” Teaching Sociology, 40: 50-59. (BB)
Reitz, Jeffrey. 2011. “Pro-Immigration Canada: Social and Economic Roots of Popular Views.”
IRPP Study, no. 20. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2011.
http://www.irpp.org/pubs/IRPPstudy/IRPP_Study_no20.pdf
Sides, John and Jack Citrin. 2007. “European Opinion About Immigration: The Role of
Identities, Interests and Information.” British Journal of Political Science, 37: 477-504. (BB)
Recommended Readings:
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Multivariate Analysis: An Introduction to the Deep
End of the Pool.” In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political
Science. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 323-348.
Brians, Craig Leonard, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim and Richard C. Rich. 2011. “Statistics
III: Examining Relationships among Several Variables.” In Empirical Political Analysis, Eighth
Edition. Boston, MASS: Longman. 311-323.
Guber, Deborah Lynn. 2003. “Distribution: Is Environmentalism Elitist?” In The Grassroots of a
Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment. Cambridge, MASS: MIT Press. 71-88.
Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel. 2010. “Changing Mass Priorities: The Link between
Modernization and Democracy.” Perspectives on Politics, 8(2): 551-567.
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Multivariate Analysis.” In Political Science
Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 527-549.
Locke, Lawrence F., Stephen J. Silverman and Waneen Wyrick Spirduso. 2010. “Analyses of
Relationships: Multiple Regression.” In Reading and Understanding Research, 3rd Edition. Los
Angeles, CA: Sage, 158-170.
Nadeau, Richard. 2002. “Satisfaction with Democracy: The Canadian Paradox.” In Neil Nevitte
(ed.), Value Change and Governance in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 37-70.
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December 3rd, Week 11: Explaining Why People Vote: Regression Extensions and Logistic
Regression
Required Reading:
Gidengil, Elisabeth, Neil Nevitte, Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt and Patrick Fornier. 2012.
“Explaining Vote Choice.”, “Appendix A-C.” In Dominance & Decline: Making Sense of Recent
Canadian Elections. 1-18; 187-202. (BB)
Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth. 2010. “Who Votes for Women Candidates and Why? Evidence
from Recent Canadian Elections.” In Cameron Anderson and Laura Stephenson (eds), Voting
Behaviour in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press. 43-64. (BB)
Pollock, Philip H. “Logistic Regression.” In The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd Edition.
Washington, DC: CQ Press. 179-202. (BB)
Recommended Sources:
Johnson, Janet Buttolph and H.T. Reynolds. 2012. “Categorical Variables and Linear Models.”,
“Logistic Regression” In Political Science Research Methods, Seventh Edition. Los Angeles,
CA: Sage. 550-567; 568-589.
Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009. “Multiple Regression Models II: Crucial
Extensions.” In The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press,
202-243.
Norris, Pippa. 2002. “New Social Movements, Protest Politics, and the Internet.” In Democratic
Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism. Cambridge University Press. 188-212.
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December 5th, Week 12: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Ethics in Quantitative Research
**REPORT DUE**
Required Readings/Video:
Francis, Chapter 2 p. 47-55
Bouma, Gary D., Rod Ling, and Lori Wilkinson. 2009. “Ethics in Human Research.” In The
Research Process, Canadian Edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford. 142-160. (BB)
Haggerty, Kevin D. 2004. “Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of
Ethics.” Qualitative Sociology, 27(4): 391-414. (BB)
Zimbardo, Philip. 1992. “Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment.” (in class video)
Recommended Readings:
Bracey, Gerald W. 2006. “Introduction” In Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid
Getting Statistically Snookered. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, xi-xx.
Archer, Keith and Loleen Berdahl. 2011. “Research Ethics: People Behind the Numbers.” In
Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. Toronto: Oxford
University Press. 96-120.
Babbie, Earl and Lucia Benaquisto. 2010. “Ethical Issues for Social Researchers.” In
Fundamentals of Social Research, 2nd Edition. Toronto: Nelson. 58-76.
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