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The State of Undergraduate Research Methods Training in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2005

Cameron G. Thies  and
Robert E. Hogan
Cameron G. Thies
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
Robert E. Hogan
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Debates over methodology have long occupied a prominent role in political science and its various empirical sub-fields. Recently, these debates and occasional dialogues seem to have intensified. The Perestroika movement within APSA protested the perceived hegemony of rational choice and quantitative methods in journal publications and graduate training (Kasza 2001). Renewed attention has focused on the types of methodologies employed by studies published in the discipline's leading journals (Garand and Giles 2003; Bennett, Barth, and Rutherford 2003; Braumoeller 2003). The kinds of concerns over methodological diversity that motivate these studies also inform discussions about graduate training (Alvarez 1992; Dyer 1992; Schwartz-Shea 2003; Morrow 2003; Smith 2003).

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 293 - 297
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© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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