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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Government Department Subject Talk 29 March 2017 Why Government at - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Government Department Subject Talk 29 March 2017 Why Government at - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A Government Department Subject Talk 29 March 2017 Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A Degree programmes BSc Government BSc Government and Economics BSc
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Who am I?
Dr Thomas J. Leeper Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour PhD Political Science, 2012 Northwestern University Undergraduate teaching
“Research Design in Political Science” “Experimental Politics”
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
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What Is Research-informed Teaching?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
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Location, location, location. . .
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Your fellow students. . .
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The academic staff. . .
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Research-informed teaching. . .
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Features of an LSE Education
1 One-on-one advising from member of
academic staff
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Features of an LSE Education
1 One-on-one advising from member of
academic staff
2 Small and large group teaching
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Features of an LSE Education
1 One-on-one advising from member of
academic staff
2 Small and large group teaching 3 LSE100: The LSE Course
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Features of an LSE Education
1 One-on-one advising from member of
academic staff
2 Small and large group teaching 3 LSE100: The LSE Course 4 Undergraduate research opportunities
Coursework Undergraduate research internships LSE Groups Posters in Parliament Research seminar series
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Features of an LSE Education
1 One-on-one advising from member of
academic staff
2 Small and large group teaching 3 LSE100: The LSE Course 4 Undergraduate research opportunities
Coursework Undergraduate research internships LSE Groups Posters in Parliament Research seminar series
5 Dissertation
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
General Course Structure
1 First Year
“Introduction to Political Science” “Introduction to Political Theory” Two further modules LSE100
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
General Course Structure
1 First Year
“Introduction to Political Science” “Introduction to Political Theory” Two further modules LSE100
2 Second Year
Mix of Government and other modules Expand breadth of knowledge
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
General Course Structure
1 First Year
“Introduction to Political Science” “Introduction to Political Theory” Two further modules LSE100
2 Second Year
Mix of Government and other modules Expand breadth of knowledge
3 Third Year
Advanced seminars (n < 15) Optional dissertation
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Degree programmes
BSc Government BSc Government and Economics BSc Government and History BSc Politics and International Relations BSc Politics and Philosophy PPE (administered by Philosophy)
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“Rerum cognoscere causas”
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“Rerum cognoscere causas” To know the causes of things
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“Rerum cognoscere causas”
Forward causal questions Backward causal questions
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“Rerum cognoscere causas”
Forward causal questions
What effect(s) does X have?
Backward causal questions
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“Rerum cognoscere causas”
Forward causal questions
What effect(s) does X have? “What if?” questions
Backward causal questions
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“Rerum cognoscere causas”
Forward causal questions
What effect(s) does X have? “What if?” questions
Backward causal questions
What causes Y?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“Rerum cognoscere causas”
Forward causal questions
What effect(s) does X have? “What if?” questions
Backward causal questions
What causes Y? Why does Y occur?
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What effect did the end of South Africa apartheid have public goods delivery?
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What role do gender quotas have on the political participation of women?
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How can governments use liberal-paternalist nudges to affect public behaviour?
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What effect will Britain’s exit from the EU have on British economic and social life?
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How do land rights shape the political behaviour and institutions of Sub-Saharan Africa?
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How do elections affect citizens emotionally?
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What effect did protest activity have during the Arab Spring?
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How does the non-verbal behaviour of Bank of England Governors affect their political influence?
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How do immigration policies affect the political and economic freedoms of the native-born?
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Why did some people vote to Leave the EU while others voted to Remain?
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How does nationalism develop in the politics of South-East Asian states?
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How do local politicians make decisions about aid distribution in Malawi?
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Why do so many terrorists have degrees in engineering?
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How do leaders of one-party states decide which partisans to purge to preserve political control?
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How do post-conflict societies build stable political institutions?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“What works?” discourse
Causal inference is not just an academic exercise
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“What works?” discourse
Causal inference is not just an academic exercise Governments, firms, and NGOs worldwide want to know what works?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“What works?” discourse
Causal inference is not just an academic exercise Governments, firms, and NGOs worldwide want to know what works?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“What works?” discourse
Causal inference is not just an academic exercise Governments, firms, and NGOs worldwide want to know what works? To do that we need students to not just be passionate about learning what we already know but also creating new knowledge
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Drawing causal inferences
Causal inference is the effort to explain how and why the world works as it does
What consequences does something have? Why does something happen?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Drawing causal inferences
Causal inference is the effort to explain how and why the world works as it does
What consequences does something have? Why does something happen?
This goes beyond looking for patterns
Correlation is not correlation!
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Drawing causal inferences
Causal inference is the effort to explain how and why the world works as it does
What consequences does something have? Why does something happen?
This goes beyond looking for patterns
Correlation is not correlation!
How, then, do we identify causal relationships in politics?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Fundamental problem of causal inference
Causal inference involves inferring what would have happened in a counterfactual reality where the potential cause took on a different value
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Fundamental problem of causal inference
Causal inference involves inferring what would have happened in a counterfactual reality where the potential cause took on a different value We can only observe the reality that
- ccurs!
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
“A Christmas Carol”
1843 novel by Charles Dickens Ebenezer Scrooge is shown his own future by the “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” Has the choice to either: stay on current path (one counterfactual), or change his ways (take a different counterfactual)
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Drawing causal inferences
Causality is defined as the difference between two potential outcomes:
1 the outcome that occurs if X occurs 2 the outcome that occurs if X does not occur
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
Drawing causal inferences
Causality is defined as the difference between two potential outcomes:
1 the outcome that occurs if X occurs 2 the outcome that occurs if X does not occur
To know the causes of things we need to know how to gather evidence and process that evidence in order to infer causality when we cannot see it directly
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What works?
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Why Government at LSE? Research-informed Teaching Q & A
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