Prepare a research brief. These briefs will
be double spaced pages (12 pt
font, 1-inch margins) containing absolutely no arguments
(what is better, who is to blame,
etc.). Each brief will include a research question (the
foundation of the rest of the paper),
a description of the puzzle your question would solve, and a
discussion of the methods you would use to answer the question if
you had the time and funding to do so.
Research designs can be structured as follows:
Introduction – what is your question? why is it
important/puzzling? what literature is it
relevant to?
Theory – what is your proposed answer to your question? (Abstractly
speaking (no proper
nouns), who are the relevant actors, what are their
interests, and what do they do to realize
those interests that explains your outcomes of interest
(i.e. protest, revolutions, electoral
success).
Hypothesis- what are your hypotheses (that is, what do you
expect to observe if your theory is
effective at explaining your outcome of interest?
Proposed methods – what would your scientific test look
like? that is, how would you at-
tempt to disprove your theory and why is this a tough enough
test to convince your reader
to believe your findings if it withstands disproof? what
data would you need?
Conclusion – what are the limits of your proposal? what
projects might follow this one?
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