Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences

Daniel Stockemer is Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies and Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His main research interests are political participation, political representation, populism, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods. In his career, Dr. Stockemer has published 4 single or co-authored books, 2 edited volumes, 1 textbook and more than 140 articles in peer reviewed journals. Daniel has several editorial commitments. He is editor of the International Political Science Review (IPSR) and the Springer Book Series in Electoral Politics.Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau is a PhD Student in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a graduate researcher with the Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies. His main research interests are political psychology, democratic resilience, electoral participation, as well as quantitative research methods and statistics. Mr. Bordeleau’s research has been published in several peer reviewed journals and with several partner organizations such as the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Empirical Social Science.- Chapter 3: A Short Introduction to Survey Research.- Chapter 4: Constructing a Survey.- Chapter 5: Conducting a Survey.- Chapter 6: Introducing R and Univariate Statistics.- Chapter 7: Bivariate Statistics with Categorical Variables.- Chapter 8: Bivariate Statistics with Two Continuous Variables.- Chapter 9: Multivariate Regression Analysis.- Appendix.