Teaching

Gov 2020: The Hidden Curriculum

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2024

Gov 2020 has two components: 

  1. The first component is a popular semester-long project designed to show how to write and publish an article in a scholarly journal, beginning with an article replication. This assignment, an early version of which was described in the article “Publication, Publication” and previously part of Gov 2001*, has resulted in many students' first publications, conference presentations, dissertations, and awards.
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Math Prefresher for Political Scientists (Faculty advisor)

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2023

Not only do the quantitative and formal modeling courses at Harvard require mathematics and computer programming | it's becoming increasingly difficult to take courses in political economy, American politics, comparative politics, or international relations without encountering game-theoretic models or statistical analyses. One need only flip through the latest issues of the top political science journals to see that mathematics have entered the mainstream of political science. Unfortunately, most undergraduate political science programs have not kept up with...

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Workshop in Applied Statistics

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2017

See Applied Statistics Workshop Homepage

The Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) meets all academic year, Wednesdays, 12pm-1:30pm, in CGIS K354. This workshop is a forum for faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars, and others in the area to present and discuss methodological or empirical work in progress in an interdisciplinary setting. The workshop features a tour of Harvard's statistical innovations and applications with weekly stops in different disciplines....

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Introduction to Quantitative Political Methodology, G1000

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Offered: 

2010

Not offered by me this year. Introduction to major quantitative technqiues used in political science. Covers exploratory data analysis, as well as descriptive and causal statistical inference of many types. The course emphasizes probability theory, regression analysis and other statistical techniques, and uses new techniques of stochastic simulation to get answers easily and to interpret statistical results in a manner very close to the political substance of the problem at hand. NOTE: Frequently taken by undergraduates needing quantitative techniques for thesis research and by graduate...

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Strategies of Political Inquiry, Government 2010

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Offered: 

2010

Gary King, Robert Putnam, and Sidney Verba: not offered this academic year. If you could learn only one thing in graduate school, it should be how to do scholarly research. You should be able to assess the state of a scholarly literature, identify interesting questions, formulate strategies for answering them, have the methodological tools with which to conduct the research, and understand how to write up the results so they can be published. Although many graduate level courses address these issues of research design indirectly, we provide an explicit analysis of each. We take empirical...

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