New Graphic Schemes for Stata: Plotplain and Plottig:
TL;DR: Two new graphic schemes are presented, plotplain and plottig, that attempt to address concerns about Stata's default graphic schemes and provide users a set of 21 colors, of which 7 colors are distinguishable for people suffering from color blindness.
Abstract: While Stata's computational capabilities have intensively increased over the last decade, the quality of its default graphic schemes is still a matter of debate among users. Some of the arguments s...
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TL;DR: A central and basic question remains unanswered: which European parties are more populist than others? Despite the in... as discussed by the authors, a pervasive concept in political science research, the question remains open.
Abstract: Populism has become a pervasive concept in political science research. However, a central and basic question remains unanswered: which European parties are more populist than others? Despite the in...
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Abstract: Recent elections have revived the debate about the decline of social democracy, often attributed to the numerical decline in the working class and its alienation due to the mainstream left’s econom...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided the first comprehensive evaluation of UN peacekeeping success in protecting civilians at the subnational level, arguing that UN peacekeepers through their sizable local presence can increase the political and military costs for warring actors to engage in civilian targeting.
Abstract: Are UN peacekeepers effective in protecting civilians from violence? Existing studies examine this issue at the country level, thereby making it difficult to isolate the effect of peacekeepers and to assess the actual mechanism at work. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of UN peacekeeping success in protecting civilians at the subnational level. We argue that peacekeepers through their sizable local presence can increase the political and military costs for warring actors to engage in civilian targeting. Since peacekeepers’ access to civilian populations rests on government consent, peacekeepers will primarily be effective in imposing these costs on rebel groups, but less so for government actors. To test these conjectures we combine new monthly data on the location of peacekeepers with data on the location and timing of civilian killings in Africa. Our findings suggest that local peacekeeping presence enhances the effectiveness of civilian protection against rebel abuse, but that UN peacekeeping struggles to protect civilians from government forces.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that partisans respond to increasing levels of elite polarization by expressing higher levels of affective polarization, i.e., more negative evaluations of the opposing party relative to their own.
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TL;DR: This article proposed a new labor market competition theory focusing on job availability rather than foreign labor supply, which predicts that individuals with low transferable skills in the labor market will articulate a subjective sense of job insecurity and higher hostility toward migrants.
Abstract: Labor market competition theories explaining anti‐immigrant attitudes have received limited or no empirical validation in recent literature. This has led researchers to highlight education and cultural values as the main, if not the sole, drivers of attitudes toward immigration. We present a new labor market competition theory focusing on job availability rather than foreign labor supply. This theory predicts that individuals with low transferable skills in the labor market will articulate a subjective sense of job insecurity and higher hostility toward migrants. Our cross‐classified, longitudinal, and difference‐in‐differences models reveal that skill specificity is a strong driver of anti‐immigrant attitudes, and they suggest that economic competition theories cannot be dismissed. By shifting the attention from supply to demand in the labor market, and from actual to potential competition with migrants, we show that the highly educated are far from immune to anti‐immigrant attitudes.
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TL;DR: Two schemes for a lean layout, conforming to the mainstream in scientific publishing, are presented for the new Stata 8 graphics.
Abstract: The new Stata 8 graphics are powerful and flexible. Now, a few months after the first release, the graphics still have some shortcomings—both in design and in the manual documenting the program—but progress is being made. The graph layout used throughout the Graphics Reference Manual has led some users to underestimate the potential of the program. This paper presents two schemes for a lean layout, conforming to the mainstream in scientific publishing.
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TL;DR: The aim of this tip is not to change your mind on how you should prepare your own graphs, but more to underline some of the possibilities offered by Stata.
Abstract: Grids of horizontal or vertical lines within graphs were greatly used in the past, but more recently have been greatly disapproved. The need for grids as guidelines in preparing graphs has disappeared as computers have displaced people as graph constructors. Their use for precise look-up of particular values has diminished as more datasets become electronically accessible. To present tastes, past compendiums of graph types, such as Brinton (1914 )a ndKarsten (1923), groan with the weight of heavy grids in example after example. The low point for grids came with the dismissal by Tufte (2001) of dark grid lines as “chartjunk”, but he also emphasized that light grid lines could be helpful. The arguments of Tufte, Cleveland (1994), Kosslyn (2006), and others, and the flexibility of modern graphic technology, imply that grids should and can be subtle and subdued. Ideally, grids will be just noticeable so that they can be tuned in and out of attention by graph readers. The grounds for grids are pragmatic and aesthetic—they can be useful and they can be pleasing. There is some room for disagreement on the first ground and much room on the second. The aim of this tip is not to change your mind on how you should prepare your own graphs, but more to underline some of the possibilities offered by Stata. Stata provides support for grids, although you may easily not have noticed. For example, with the auto.dta dataset, Stata’s default s2color graph scheme, and the canonical graph . scatter mpg weight subtle grid lines appear for mpg values 10, 20, 30, and 40. That also is true with the sj scheme used in the Stata Journal. These grid lines are associated with the corresponding axis labels. If you do not want them, you can turn them off with an option, such as ylabel(, nogrid). Grid lines can also be associated with axis ticks: more usually, you would need to turn those on with an option, such as ytick(15(10)35, grid)—not that this is an especially good idea. Grid lines in the informal wider sense may also be added through options such as yline(). What goes for the y axis also goes for the x axis, at least as far as twoway is concerned. To use grids effectively and tastefully, it is essential to be able to tune line width, color, and style, as well as horizontal or vertical position. Stata makes this easier by providing, at least in principle, grid, major grid ,a ndminor grid linestyles; see [G] linestyle. In practice, these three need not be distinct, depending precisely on the graph scheme in use. Independently of that, you can tweak grid lines as desired through standard line options.
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