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Literature Review

Literature Review. Research Paper Overview. Introduction Literature Review Model/Hypothesis Research Design Analysis and Assessment Conclusion. Purpose of Literature Review. Literature = scholarly body of work How have other scholars answered this question in generic and specific forms?

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Literature Review

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  1. Literature Review

  2. Research Paper Overview • Introduction • Literature Review • Model/Hypothesis • Research Design • Analysis and Assessment • Conclusion

  3. Purpose of Literature Review • Literature = scholarly body of work • How have other scholars answered this question in generic and specific forms? • What are the different schools of thought that have developed in response to research question? • How does each school answer the research question? • What are the strengths and weaknesses of each school?

  4. Research Question: What motivates students to learn? • Learning theory • Intrinsic motivation • External motivators (carrots and sticks) • Lectures • Group-based work • Access to fresh air, exercise, healthy diet • Great teachers • Great peer groups

  5. What motivates people to vote? • If they care about the issues • Parental voting • Education levels

  6. Dynamic Effects of Education on Voter Turnout, Barry Burden • 1978, Brody identifies a puzzle • Education predicts whether individuals will vote. • But, over time, rising levels of education did not increase aggregate turnout. • Why? • I explain that EXISTING solutions to this puzzle are unsatisfying …

  7. TAV and TAVR • The American Voter (TAV) • The American Voter Revisited (TAVR) • Study after study reports that education has huge influence on voting … Wolfinger and Rosenstone (1980), etc. • BUT …

  8. Some have challenged validity of this finding … • Relative rather than absolute education levels are important (Nie et al., 1996; Tenn, 2005) • Relationship is spurious (Kam and Palmer, 2008) • Dee (2004), Milligan et al (2004) and Sondheimer (2006) find education increases turnout

  9. Burden … • Three categories in the literature about relationship between education and voting • Education provides skills to make sense of political world • Education makes it easier to nagivate voter registration requirements • Classroom networks, etc. socialize a sense of civic duty

  10. Actually writing the LR • Stand alone paper • Title • Sections • Conclusion

  11. Intro to Lit Review • There is a scholarly debate … • A scholarly debate exists… • Scholars have debated … • Each school of thought answers question • Strengths and weaknesses of each school

  12. Organizing the Lit Review • Chronologically • Studies in 1950s • Studies in 1960s • Studies in 1980s • Worst to Best explanation • NOT a series of article or book summaries • “Boxcar” approach • Make a conceptual “storyline” for the literature • What are key concepts and causal claims? • How have they evolved? • First goal is to integrate previous research conceptually and methodologically • Second goal is to explain how this new research both complements and moves beyond previous work

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