Research Methods

This will serve as the course website for PUAD 5319, Research Methods in Public Administration, at Texas Tech University. Any major announcements will be made directly to this page or using university e-mail.

Lecture slides will be posted AFTER class to each week’s page.

Please find the course syllabus linked below:

Week One: Introduction to Research Design, Research Ethics and Developing Research Questions

Week Two: Literature Review, Conceptual Frameworks, and Theoretical Hypotheses

Week Three: Intro to the Toolbox of Methods, Measurement, and Sampling

Week Four: Qualitative & Mixed Methods Designs

Week Five: Intro to Survey Design, Quantitative Methods, Describing Variables, & Relationships

Week Six: The Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference, Potential Outcomes Model, Lab & Field Experiments

Week Seven: NO CLASS

Week Eight: Survey Experiments

Week Nine: Quasi-Experimental Design: Regression & Matching

Week Ten: Quasi-Experimental Design: Interrupted Time-Series, Difference-in-Differences and Event-Study

Week Eleven: Quasi-Experimental Design: Instrumental Variables & Regression Discontinuity