The Distribution of Treatment Effects: New Evidence from a Welfare Reform Experiment
Seminar
Heterogeneous effects of welfare reforms on earnings, transfers and income have been established theoretically and empirically. Welfare reform studies usually focus on average or quantile treatment effects, which depend on the marginal distributions of potential treatment and control outcomes. Less…
African Studies Workshop 2022
Workshop
African Studies Workshop 2022: Studying Africa at ANU: Interdisciplinary Perspectives CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The intrinsic complexity of Africa, as a subject of study, raises two enduring questions: First, what is the best approach to studying Africa, and second, who is best suited to study the…
The Interpretive Aspect of all Social Science Methods (John Dryzek)
Seminar
Philosopher of science Karl Popper (who believed in objective causal explanation) argued in The Logic of Scientific Discovery that observations in science are “interpretations of the facts observed: they are interpretations in the light of theories.” When it comes to social science, not just…
Revisiting ontology (and epistemology): Communicating with one’s methodological others (those who think about research in terms of variables) (Peregrine Schwartz-Shea)
Seminar
In a “new, updated version of KKV”—so says the blurb: “a classic text in guiding strong research design” presents “a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science” (https://gking.harvard.edu/kkv). The 1994 book, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in…
Brazil Update 2022: A conversation with experts on the brazilian elections and democracy
Webinar/Online
Please join the Australian Centre for Federalism for our inaugural Brazil Update! Co-sponsored by The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS), the Brazil Update will be a 60-minute live conversation with leading election and party experts on Brazil. We will present and…
Methods of Interpretive Policy Analysis: A Practice Perspective (Severine van Bommel)
Seminar
This chapter takes as its focus the actual practice, with respect to methods, of practitioners in Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA). In textbooks on interpretive methods, a lot of space and time are devoted to the differences in the scientific grounding that underpin the interpretive…
IACFS 2022 Conference “Fiscal Federalism and Territorial Inequalities” October 27-28, 2022, Bilbao, Spain
Conference
At this year’s International Association of Centres for Federal Studies Conference, fiscal federalism, territorial inequalities and the management of subnational public finances will be studied and debated. The Conference is open to the public with prior registration. Likewise, the event can be…