ECPR Methods School at General Conference

Learn to conduct your research with MAXQDA24, the leading software for qualitative data analysis. This interactive course combines live teaching with practical, try-at-home exercises.

Build a solid foundation in statistical analysis with R. Learn Ordinary Least Squares regression and non-linear techniques, and their application in policy analysis and other contexts.

Gain practical skills in qualitative comparative analysis as you learn to design your research, analyse data, use specialised software, and effectively communicate your findings.

Get introduced to the core principles of political ethnography. You'll learn ethnographic methods and writing, research design, quality and ethics, and gain practical experience in studying politics and power in a range of contexts.

Familiarise yourself with the long history of populist phenomena as well as with the various attempts by political research to map, interpret and theorise them diachronically, with emphasis on the limitations of mainstream approaches.

Learn about when process tracing can be used and how it can be applied most effectively. Experience the key aspects of process tracing through practical, hands-on advice and techniques that can be applied in your own research project.

Learn to understand political science literatures using common quantitative text analysis approaches and how to interpret the results with the most common methods used by social scientists.