Introduction to Research Methods in Politics and International Relations PIR 1600

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Introduction to Research Methods in Politics and
International RelationsPIR 1600

• SECKIN BARIS GULMEZ
• s.b.gulmez_at_rhul.ac.uk
• www.pir1600.wordpress.com

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MEASUREMENT

• Measuring intangible/abstract concepts
• Quantitative methods
• Measuring Human Rights
• Landman, T. (2004) Measuring Human Rights
  Principle, Practice, and Policy, Human Rights
  Quarterly, 26 906-931.

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QUESTIONS

• Definition of Human Rights?
• What are the ways of finding a good way to define
  Human Rights?
• How can we measure human rights?
• Which methods could be used?
• What are the problems with measuring human
  rights?

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Next week

• Introduction to Surveys
• discuss the principles of survey research and the
  issues and problems associated with different
  stages of the survey design process.
• Reading
• Peter Burnham, Karin Gilland Lutz, Wyn Grant and
  Zig Layton-Henry (2008). Research Methods in
  Politics (Palgrave Macmillan). Chapter 4.