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Makro-quantitative Methoden

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In der Politikwissenschaft werden seit mehr als 100 Jahren quantitative Methoden angewandt. Aber erst seit den 1960er Jahren gehören statistische Verfahren zum methodischen Grundkanon der Politikwissenschaft. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über makroquantitative Methoden in der Policy-Forschung. Spätestens seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre haben sich Panel oder sogenannte Time Series Cross Section Modelle durchgesetzt. Im Unterschied zu Querschnittsanalysen werden die Länder über die Zeit hinweg beobachtet. Daher werden in diesem Beitrag zunächst die Grundlagen von Panelverfahren sowie die verschiedenen Modellierungsvarianten vorgestellt. Im Anschluss diskutiere ich, welche Stärken und Schwächen mit diesem Instrumentarium einhergehen und für welche Fragestellungen es geeignet ist. Beispielstudien veranschaulichen im Folgenden, wie Panelverfahren in der Forschungspraxis der vergleichenden Policy-Forschung zum Einsatz kommen. Anhand einer in der Policy-Forschung breit untersuchten Forschungsfrage zeige ich darüber hinaus, wie sich methodische Entscheidungen auf die Ergebnisse von Analysen auswirken können. Abschließend werden mit dem Maximum Likelihood Verfahren und den Modellen räumlicher Ökonometrie weiterführende Methoden vorgestellt.

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Schmitt, C. (2015). Makro-quantitative Methoden. In: Wenzelburger, G., Zohlnhöfer, R. (eds) Handbuch Policy-Forschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01968-6_16

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