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The Institute of World Policy organized the training on methodology of analytical research for the experts of the prominent Ukrainian think tanks on September 4, 2015 at the International Renaissance Foundation.Trainer: Dr. Martin Brusis, Managing Director of the project network „Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism“ ( Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

The participants discussed such important elements of every research as building theories, hypotheses, causality and causal explanations, explanatory and response variables. Dr. Martin Brusis explained how to use the qualitative and quantitative tools for descriptive and causal inference (causal process vs. data set observations, comparative case studies, regression analysis).

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To watch videos from the training follow the links:

Notions of causality
Conceptualization and measurement
Classical and radial concepts
Measurement

The event was held within the “Initiative for Development of Ukrainian Think Tanks” conducted by the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) in association with the Think Tank Fund (TTF) with financial support of the Swedish Embassy in Ukraine (SIDA).