HS: Politikwissenschaftliche Methoden III: MA/SM Introduction to R [HS: Politikwissenschaftliche Methoden III: MA/SM Introduction to R]

Dozent/in:

Florian Weiler

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Blockveranstaltung 29.3.2016-1.4.2016 Mo-Fr, Sa, So, 9:00 - 18:00, RZ/01.02
Zeit nach Vereinbarung Blockveranstaltung 29.03.-01.04.2016

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Master course: Hauptseminar - Politikwissenschaftliche Methoden III Time and date: Monday, 29 March - 1 April, 9am-16:00pm Venue: Room RZ/01.02 Registration: MA-Students: FlexNow; BAGSS PhDs: Please register by sending a mail to Marc Scheibner (marc.scheibner@uni-bamberg.de). Requirements: MA or PhD student ECTS: 8

Inhalt:

This workshop introduces students to many of the most commonly used features of R, an open source program for statistical computation. R provides the user with a wide variety of pre-programmed modeling and graphing techniques. But R is also a powerful programming language and allows users to adjust existing functions to their needs, and to write their own functions. This workshop intends to introduce students first to the R language, R’s object oriented approach to statistical modeling, and the basics of writing functions, and second to the most commonly used pre-proprammed statistical techniques. The Introduction to R lectures in the morning will be accompanied by lab sessions in the afternoon to provide students with a hands-on experience of the techniques covered in class. The lab is structured to be relatively unguided, providing participants the opportunity to begin digging into the R computing environment at their own pace. During each lab session I will hand out exercises to be completed independently, or in collaboration with other students. I will be at hand to answer questions and help with the almost inevitable coding problems beginners of R are usually faced with. At the end of the course students should be able to work with R independently

Empfohlene Literatur:

Introductory Readings Zuur, Alain, Elena Ieno, and Erik Meesters (2009). A Beginner’s Guide to R. Springer. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer. Fox, John, and Sanford Weisberg (2011). An R Companion to Applied Regression. 2nd edition, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc. Muenchen, Robert A., and Joseph M. Hilbe (2010). R for Stata Users. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer. King, Garry, Kosuke Imai, and Olivia Lau (2008). Zelig: Everyone’s Statistical Software. http://http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/zelig.

HS: Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft III: MA/SP Inequality and Political Representation

Dozent/in:

Florian Weiler

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, FMA/00.07

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Master course: MA Hauptseminar: Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft IV Zeit und Ort: Monday, 10 - 12:00pm, Room FMA/00.07 (Starting: 12.10.2015) Registration: FlexNow, 15.09.2015 - 19.10.2015 (Deregistration by 25.10.2015) Prerequisites: None Grading: Term paper (75%), Presentation (25%) ECTS: 8

Inhalt:

Course Outline Over the past decade(s) we have seen a rise in social inequality in many countries around the world, among them many rich and developed OECD countries. In this course we will discuss the causes of rising income inequality and poverty, but also the repercussions of these phenomena for the political system. We start out by defining what poverty is, and how income inequality can be measured. Then we take a closer look at how social inequality has developed over time in various OECD countries, but we will discuss these issues also on a global scale. During the later stages of the course we then investigate how income inequality effects the political representation of various groups, among them the poor, in the policy making process. The course should enable students to make informed arguments about inequality and poverty, but also enable them to increase their research skills and their ability to write scientific papers.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Introductory Readings Nolan, Brian et al. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gilens, Martin, and Benjamin Page (2014). Testing Theories of American politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens. Perspectives on Politics 12(3), 564-581. Hacker, Jacob and Paul Pierson (2010). Winner-Take-All Politics. Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States. Politics & Society 38(2), 152-204. Piketty, Thomas (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

S: (BA): Vertiefungsseminar Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: S: BA/VS: Vertiefungsseminar Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: Interessengruppen und politisches Lobbying

Dozent/in:

Florian Weiler

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, FMA/00.06

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Bachelor Kurs: BA Vertiefungsseminar: Vertiefungsseminar Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft Zeit und Ort: Monday, 14 - 16:00pm, Room FMA/00.06 (Beginn: 12.10.2015) Registrierung: FlexNow, 01.09.2015 - 19.10.2015 (Abmeldung bis 25.10.2015) Voraussetzungen: Keine
Benotung: Seminararbeit (75%), Referat (25%)
ECTS: 8

Inhalt:

Kursbeschreibung Die beiden wichtigsten Ziele von Interessengruppen sind die Beeinflussung der Politik einerseits, andererseits aber auch die Sicherung des eignen Fortbestandes. Um das Verhalten von Lobbyorganisationen zu untersuchen, m¨ussen zun¨achst diese beiden Ziele n¨aher beleuchtet werden. Ebenso ist ein Verst¨andnis des Lobbysystems notwendig, um politische Entscheidungsprozesse nachvollziehen zu k¨onnen. In diesem Kurs steht daher die Rolle, die Interessengruppen in demokratischen Staaten einnehmen, im Zentrum des Interesses. Dabei wird eine vergleichende, in erster Linie jedoch Europ¨aische Perspektive eingenommen. Dabei werden eine Reihe unterschiedlicher Akteure, wie z.b. Businessgruppen, Gewerkschaften oder NGOs, unter die Lupe genommen, aber auch unterschiedliche Theorien zu Themen wie Mobilisierung, Lobbystrategien, Lobbyerfolg, etc. werden besprochen. Ziel des Kurses ist es, den Kursteilnehmern einen kritischen Blick auf die Rolle von Interessengruppen in verschiedenen Arenen des politischen Lebens zu erm¨oglichen. Daneben sollen auch die F¨ahigkeiten, eigene kleine Forschungsprokte durchzuf¨uhren und dar¨uber eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit zu verfassen, gest¨arkt werden.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Einf¨uhrende Literatur Mahoney, Christine (2008). Brussels versus the beltway: Advocacy in the United States and the European Union Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Baumgartner, Frank et al. (2009): Lobbying and policy change: Who wins, who loses, and why, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Ainsworth, Scott H. (2002). Analyzing Interest Groups: Group Influence on People and Policies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, Inc.