Class Analysis Methods and Techniques

The class Métodos e Técnicas de Análise aims to provide to students of European Studies and International Relations the knowledge and the essential methodological skills to develop scientific investigations in an autonomous manner.

1. Scientific Research

  1.1. Fundamentals of Scientific Research

   1.2 The role of research methods and techniques

    1.3 Research in European Studies and International Relations in Portugal

2. Qualitative Approach

  2.1 Interpretive epistemology

  2.2 Inductive research process

  2.3 Case study and comparative method

  2.4. Unstructured interviews, direct observation and qualitative content analysis

3. Quantitative approach

  3.1 Positivist epistemology

   3.2 Deductive research process

  3.3. Statistical method and experimental method

  3.4 Structured interviews, questionnaires and quantitative content analysis

Oral presentations and emphasis on individual and autonomous work in order to produce a first scientific work

Brians, C. L., Willnat, L.; Manheim, J. B.; Rich, R. C. (2016). Empirical political analysis: research methods in political science . 8th edition. London: Routledge

. - Johnson, J. B.; Reynolds, H. T. (2012). Political science research methods. Washington: Cq Press. - Pierce, R. (2008). Research methods in politics. London: Sage.

- Corbetta, P. (2003). Social research: Theory, methods and techniques. London: Sage

. - Porta, D. d.; Keating, M. (1994). Approaches and methodologies in the social sciences: A pluralist perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

. - Coutinho, C. P. (2014). Metodologia de investigação em ciências sociais e humanas. Coimbra: Almedina