{"id":42,"date":"2018-01-29T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/?p=42"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:05:50","slug":"questions-and-topic-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/2018\/01\/29\/questions-and-topic-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions and Topic Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Questions about Getting Started:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How can I be sure I&#8217;ve settled on the right topic?<\/li>\n<li>How can I be sure that my research question hasn&#8217;t already been answered?<\/li>\n<li>How do I turn a vague interest into a specific research question?<\/li>\n<li>Do all theses require original research?<\/li>\n<li>How can I check if something is researchable before I try to research it for my thesis?<\/li>\n<li>If I have to decide on a research question before I start the reading phase, how can I know if my research question is precise enough?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Topic or Questions I&#8217;m Passionate About:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Group Decision Making<\/li>\n<li>Preference ordering in political decision making<\/li>\n<li>Cost-benefit analysis of immigration by immigrants<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of racism and discrimination in the US<\/li>\n<li>International perception of US politics over time: From Groundbreaking Democracy to antiquated dis-functionalism.<\/li>\n<li>International Crimes Against Humanity: The case of forced disappearances<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions about Getting Started: How can I be sure I&#8217;ve settled on the right topic? How can I be sure that my research question hasn&#8217;t already been answered? How do I turn a vague interest into a specific research question? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/2018\/01\/29\/questions-and-topic-ideas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}