84-640 Collaborative Research in Political Science
6–12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Are you interested in joining an interdisciplinary, collaborative research team that could eventually lead to publishing a coauthored article in political science This course invites interested students to join as active participants in one of several ongoing research projects by a faculty member in the Institute of Politics and Strategy. Students will be grouped into small teams of coauthors based on interest and skills. Some students may take the lead with data collection and cleaning, others with writing a literature review or case studies, others still with analyzing and visualizing data. The goal will be to draft a coauthored paper by the end of the semester that may be presented at a conference and, ideally, published in a journal. Students from all backgrounds are welcome, especially those with an interest in politics, history, international relations, or social science applications of statistics, data science, andor machine learning. SPRING 2023 TOPIC Technologies of rebellion and the politics of coups, selfcoups, assassinations, mass protest, andor armed insurgency.
Prerequisites: none listed
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