Just Telling It Like It Is: Descriptive Work and Social Science Research

PWH Postdoctoral Fellow Meg K. Guliford is one of the recipients of the APSA 2022 Special Projects Fund.

What is the role of descriptive research in Social Science? How can description, either on its own or in complementing causal work, contribute to the aims of Political Science? For the past 60 years, descriptive work has been relegated to the sidelines of Political Science, yet it is a necessary component across sub-fields and crucial for qualitative and quantitative work in conceptualization, measurement, and theory-building.

We will host an iterated two-part workshop series that includes discussion and presentations on description as a method and a tool of social scientific inquiry.

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