Measurement and research design I

Readings and class materials for Sunday, August 30, 2026

Readings

  • Yoon Soo Park, Lars Konge, and Anthony R. Artino, “The Positivism Paradigm of Research,” Academic Medicine 95, no. 5 (2020): 690–94, https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003093
  • Gerardo L. Munck, Jørgen Møller, and Svend-Erik Skaaning, “Conceptualization and Measurement: Basic Distinctions and Guidelines,” in The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, ed. Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020), https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526486387.n22
  • Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg, and Staffan I. Lindberg, “Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes,” Politics and Governance 6, no. 1 (2018): 60–77, https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1214
  • Explore the Arab Barometer website (https://www.arabbarometer.org/) and see what kind of data they have

Slides