API216 Elections and Public Opinion

API216 Elections and Public Opinion - Class notes

Pippa Norris API-216

www.pippanorris.com

API-216

Class Notes

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	Date	Mondays - Littauer 382 Theory & literature Powerpoint	Wed - Computer lab Data analysis skills Powerpoint	Optional Downloads Acrobat PDF
		Shopping
1	W 4 Feb	Introduction and road map
2	M 9 Feb	Mass beliefs & public opinion
3	W 11 Feb		Introduction to SPSS. Conceptualizing causal models and hypothesis testing	My briefing memo: SPSS Windows SPSS Brief Guide SPSS Base Manual
4	W 18 Feb		Identifying suitable survey and aggregate data files. Data importing and recoding data	My briefing memo: SPSS Commands and output
5	M 23 Feb	Political participation
6	W 25 Feb		Bivariate descriptive statistics: categorical data: frequencies, cross-tabulations, bar charts, significance tests	SPSS Interactive graphics Guide
7	M 1 Mar	Value change and ideological orientations		Project plan
8	W 3 Mar		No class
9	M 8 Mar	Elections and parties
10	W 10 Mar		Factor analysis and scale construction
11	M 15 Mar	Social cleavages
12	W 17 Mar		Linear regression models I Exercise	SPSS Regression models
13	M 22 Mar	Partisan orientations
14	W 24 Mar		Linear regression models II spss syntax file to download (recode statements)
15	M 5 Apr	Political representation
16	W 7 Apr		More practice on generating regression models (see above)	Friday: Draft project
17	M 12 Apr	Effective reports
18	W 14 Apr		Visualizing data and trends: time series and interactive graphs
19	M 19 Apr	Campaigns & media
20	W 21 Apr		Merging, aggregating, splitting and restructuring files
21	M 26 Apr
22	W 29 Apr		Presenting professional results
23	M 3 May	Conclusions		Final project
24	W 5 May	Wrap up and evaluation

Last updated 11/28/2009