Politics with Quantitative Methods

About this course

Politics with quantitative methods at Edinburgh is a degree that takes seriously both the substance of political science and the methodological demands of rigorous empirical research. Political science is concerned with understanding power, institutions, and political behaviour, asking how governments are formed and how they govern, why people vote the way they do, how international organisations work, and what drives political change. Quantitative methods add a particularly valuable dimension to this inquiry: the ability to analyse large datasets, test hypotheses rigorously, and draw conclusions about political phenomena with statistical confidence is increasingly central to professional political research and policy analysis. At the University of Edinburgh, you will study over four years of full-time study, with a year abroad included in the programme. The politics curriculum covers p

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