A mandatory orientation session for this class will be held on May 1, 2012 from 7:30pm-8:30pm H1220 (1455 deMaisonneuve Blvd. W.). Please be sure to attend.
A mandatory orientation session for this class will be held on May 1, 2012 from 7:30pm-8:30pm H1220 (1455 deMaisonneuve Blvd. W.). Please be sure to attend.
For more information on any of these workshops, please e-mail wssr@alcor.concordia.ca or visit the Department of Political Science in the Hall Building, Room 1225-17 (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., W.).
The Department of Political Science at Concordia University is proud to announce its 2012 Workshops on Social Science Research (WSSR) that will be held from May 7th to May 31st.
The WSSR offer intensive short courses designed to enhance your knowledge and skills in the areas of democratic governance, public policy, and research methodology. They are taught by highly reputable and insightful instructors from well-known academic institutions and/or well-qualified and distinguished backgrounds.
Landing the Big One: Political Science in Pursuit of Power
Tom Flanagan, Former Senior Communications Advisor to Stephen Harper
Date: May 7-8
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
In this intensive two-day workshop, Tom Flanagan, also a former senior advisor to Preston Manning, will discuss the essential differences between politics and political science. He will also cover topics such as persuasion in the public realm, power and influence, political campaigning, and coalition building.
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Decisions: The Road to the White House and Implications of the 2012 American Election
Thomas J. Scotto, Reader in the Department of Government, University of Essex
Date: May 10-11
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
This two-day workshop is designed to acquaint students with a number of topics related to American voting behaviour and presidential policy-making. Specific topics such as race, economics, and foreign policy will be addressed. Also, this workshop will examine whether election results translate into policy outcomes. If Barack Obama is elected for a second term, will he alter his policy agenda?
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Focus Groups and Semi-Structured Interviews in Theory and Practice
Sébastien Dallaire
Research Director in Public Affairs, Léger Marketing
Date: May 11
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: TBA
This one-day workshop is designed to provide students and researchers with the basic theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to understand how focus groups and qualitative interviews can be used for research projects. It is meant to go beyond research methods books by providing participants with insights from actual research experiences and practical exercises.
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Public Funding: Who Really Decides?
Stockwell Day,
Former President of the Treasury Board and Former Leader of the Canadian Alliance Party
Date: May 15-16
Time: 9:00am-12pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
Textbooks and theories rarely cover how budgets for societies are made. In this workshop, former Finance Minister of Alberta Stockwell Day will outline the nuts and bolts of how public financing decisions are made. What are the key priorities? How much money will be spent? Who really decides?
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Dealing with Disasters: How Governments Cope with Unexpected Event
Saundra Schneider, Professor, Michigan State University
Date: May 17-18
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
What differentiates disasters from other events that arise during everyday life? How have we handled disasters in the past? Why have our efforts to address disasters been so inconsistent and variable? Can we develop better ways of responding to disaster situations? This workshop will focus directly on these questions using case studies of natural disasters, health crises, environmental mishaps, nuclear accidents, infrastructure failures, and transportation breakdowns.
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Dynamic Models for Public Policy Analysis I
Harold Clarke, Ashbel Smith Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Essex
Date: May 22-23
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
This two-day workshop focuses on basic time series statistical methods for analyzing policy interventions and policy outcomes. The course emphasizes practical applications and students will learn how to use STATA to conduct their analyses. This workshop will benefit anyone who is interested in studying the effects of public policy interventions and policy outcomes.
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Statistical Graphics for Visualizing Data: Tools for Seeing Beyond “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”
William Jacoby, Professor, Michigan State University and Director, ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan.
Date: May 22-23
Time: 9:00am to 12:00pm and from 1:30pm to 4:00pm on the first day
9:00am to 12:00pm on the second day
Location: TBA
This two-day workshop will teach you about visual displays of quantitative information. It will cover ways to, quite literally, look at your data. Part I covers the theory and practice of statistical graphics. Specific topics include the motivations behind graphical data displays, criteria for evaluating the quality of a graphical display, and the specific types of graphs that are available for showing univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data. Part II will then teach you how to construct various kinds of graphical displays.
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An Introduction to Logistic Regression and Latent Class Models for Public Policy Analysis
Allan L. McCutcheon, Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Date: May 23-24
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
This workshop will help participants learn how to become an informed consumer of quantitative and statistical arguments for policy analyses. It will emphasize how to conduct such analyses, and how to explain the results of statistical analyses to policy-makers and others. In addition, this class will cover the strengths and limitations of statistical measures in conducting public policy research.
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Election Policy and Administration
Keith Archer, Chief Electoral Officer, British Columbia
Date: May 24-25
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
This intensive workshop surveys critical issues in contemporary election administration, and the options that are available to election agencies in Canada. The workshop will provide you with the opportunity to discuss with the current Chief Electoral Officer of British Columbia some of the key challenges and practical concerns, focusing on topics such as voter registration, electoral finance, electoral boundaries and the administration of elections.
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Dynamic Models for Public Policy Analysis II
Guy Whitten, Associate Professor, Texas A & M University
Date: May 24-25
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
This two-day applied workshop introduces students to intermediate-level statistical tools for analyzing public policy interventions and policy outcomes. Students will learn how to use R, STATA and RATS to specify and estimate several important models for policy analysis including Box-Jenkins ARIMA, Error Correction, GARCH, VAR, and dynamic panels for time series cross-sectional (TSCS) data. Students are invited to bring their own data sets for analyses in lab sessions.
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Case Studies and Public Policy
Derek Beach, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: May 28-29
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
The aim of this two-day workshop will be to provide students with a set of methodological tools (such as process-tracing) that enable the use of case study methods in research and public policy analysis. A constant theme throughout the course will be on debating the strengths and limitations of different small-n methods, illustrating the types and scopes of inferences that are possible, and their implications for research results and public policy.
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Running Cities Sustainably
David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto
Date: May 29
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
In this one-day power workshop, David Miller will discuss what cities are doing worldwide to fight climate change and how these efforts help to create jobs and social equality. He will also address transit expansion, public works projects and building retrofitting as examples of environmental projects which create jobs.
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Discourse Analysis
Lea Sgier, Assistant Professor, Central European University, Hungary
Date: May 30-31
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm
Location: TBA
This workshop aims to introduce students to the various “schools” of discourse analysis and the usefulness of discourse analytical work for various disciplines. It starts with an introduction to the theoretical and epistemological bases of discourse analysis, and then moves on to practical exercises to illustrate how discourse analytical research is done. These exercises will also cover issues such as validity and the limits of interpretation.
TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE
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