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Style Guide for Both Courses

Can be found here.

Effect of Partisanship on Math Skills

The study I mentioned in class.

Public Policy Readings for 9/19

Velez and Martin

Public Policy Reading for 9/12

Abramowitz Schreckhise

Public Policy First Assignment Sheet

Topic Paper Assignment: Your first paper will outline an effective question on your topic of choice. It will:a. Be on a public policy topic (public policy broadly defined)b. Draw on empirical data to investigate the topic.c. Focus on a causal relationship.d. Allow for generalization from its analysis, in that the answer should apply to more […]

Public Policy Readings for Week 2

Putnam Article Manheim

Public Policy Core Course – First Week’s Readings

For both of these, you may have to login with your NetID. Bennet Article Katzenstein Article. This will take you to the table of contents. Professor K’s article is about two-thirds of the way down, entitled “Writing Political Science: Asking a Question Then (Actually) Answering It”

Slope Day

Dylan Scott writes: One of the major advantages of studying “abroad” at CIW as opposed to going to France or Australia is that Ithaca is just a car ride or short flight away. No matter how much fun you’re having in DC, as a CIW student, the need to make plans for Slope Day is […]

Policy & Politics Final Copy Hand-In

Final Paper Assignment Sheet, Policy and Politics

Final Paper Assignment Sheet Your final paper will look to answer a question about a policy or policy-related topic by testing a hypothesis that you develop, using data that you find, through a research design that you create. The hypothesis will be firmly grounded in facts and data (empirical), it will look at a cause […]

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