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Data and methods to study European politics
This course will provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the key concepts and methods used in the study of political phenomena in Europe. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, students will learn about the major datasets and research methods used in to analyse European politics, and they will gain practical experience in applying these methods to actual research questions.
The course will cover a wide range of topics, including public opinion, political parties, electoral behavior, and other areas of interest. In parallel, students will learn how to use R for a variety of quantitative methods to analyze data and answer research questions. Previous knowledge of R is not required.
By the end of the course, students will have gained practical experience in working with the most important datasets to study European politics and will be able to apply the methods learnt to their own research.
Lecturer: Dr Rosa Navarrete
Since December 2022, Dr Rosa M. Navarrete has been working as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Political Science with a focus on European Integration and International Relations in the Department of European Social Research at Saarland University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at MZES (University of Mannheim), a research associate at the Chair of Comparative Government at the University of Mannheim, a research associate for the project "Democratic dissatisfaction in Southern Europe: the political consequences of the crisis" at the University of York and a research associate at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
She studied History (B.A. + M.A.) at the Complutense University of Madrid and completed her M.A. in Democracy and Government at the Autonomous University of Madrid. In 2019, she finished her PhD in Political Science at the University of Mannheim. In her dissertation, she studied the effect of left-right orientations on political behaviour. Her research interests include text-as-data methods, comparative politics, European politics, political behaviour and the impact of digitalisation on political attitudes.