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Keywords: Voting Behavior
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- Abstract: Upon completion of this course, the student will: Express ideas clearly in writing; Work individually and with classmates to research political issues; Interpret and apply data from original documents such as court cases and bills; Write to persuade with evidence; Develop essay responses that include a clear, defensible thesis statement and supporting evidence; Raise and explore questions about policies, institutions, beliefs, and actions in a political science context; Evaluate secondary materials, such as scholarly works or statistical analyses; Explain the foundations and underpinnings of democratic government; Demonstrate comprehension of documents essential to American government and politics; Evaluate the importance of federalism in the political operation of the nation; Describe the nature of American political parties and their role in the election process; Analyze the patterns of voter behavior; Describe the functions and workings of policy making institutions (Congress, the Presidency, the Courts, and the Bureaucracy); Analyze the major developments in civil rights and civil liberties in America
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- Abstract: Focus on multivariate data analysis procedures, emphasizing regression. Considers model specification, autocorrelation, instrumental variables, and causal modelling. Students must have taken at least one previous subject in statistics. Open to qualified undergraduates. Course home page description: This course is the second semester in the statistics sequence for political science and public policy offered in the Political Science Department at MIT. The intellectual thrust of the course is a presentation of statistical models for estimating causal effects of variables. The model of an effect is a conditional mean (though we might imagine other effect). The notion of causality is the effect of one variable on another holding all else constant.
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- Abstract: This graduate seminar provides an examination of mass and elite political behavior in the United States, with an emphasis on political participation, political inequality, elections, voting behavior, and political organizations.
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