Required reading:

Introduction and chapter 3 from Goertz, G & Mahoney, J 2012, A tale of two cultures: Qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences. Princeton University Press.

Allison, Graham T. "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis." The American Political Science Review 63, no. 3 (1969): 689-718. Accessed August 27, 2021. doi:10.2307/1954423. (I recommend the version uploaded here. The required and recommended parts of the paper are marked in the document.)

Don't forget to fill out the online ROPOT quiz and don't forget to prepare answers to the study questions.

Homework:

Do the homework before this week's class. Insert your answers in the ROPOT application (the link is below) and also bring your answers to the class.

Do the exercises in the following document:

Answers to the study questions (about the readings) are part of the homework. You don't have to upload the answers to study questions to the ROPOT. However, make sure that you bring them to the class.