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The article was published on 1906-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 578 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political science of religion & International political economy.read more
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How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism But Silences Collective Expression
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a system to locate, download, and analyze the content of millions of social media posts originating from nearly 1,400 different social media services all over China before the Chinese government is able to find, evaluate, and censor the large subset they deem objectionable.
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Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States
TL;DR: This paper showed that although most programs have indeed resisted retrenchment, U.S. social policy has also offered increasingly incomplete risk protection in an era of dramatic social change, and argued that the declining scope of risk protection also reflects deliberate and theoretically explicable strategies of reform adopted by welfare state opponents in the face of popular and changeresistant policies.
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Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others
TL;DR: This article found that civil wars emerging from coups or revolutions tend to be short and five factors are strongly related to civil war duration, including five factors that are found to be correlated with the duration of civil war.
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
TL;DR: This article found that the descendants of societies that traditionally practiced plough agriculture, today have lower rates of female participation in the workplace, in politics, and in entrepreneurial activities, as well as a greater prevalence of attitudes favoring gender inequality.
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Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies
TL;DR: This work presents a minimum set of assumptions required under standard designs of experimental and observational studies and develops a general algorithm for estimating causal mediation effects and provides a method for assessing the sensitivity of conclusions to potential violations of a key assumption.
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Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference
TL;DR: A unified approach is proposed that makes it possible for researchers to preprocess data with matching and then to apply the best parametric techniques they would have used anyway and this procedure makes parametric models produce more accurate and considerably less model-dependent causal inferences.
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Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts
TL;DR: A survey of automated text analysis for political science can be found in this article, where the authors provide guidance on how to validate the output of the models and clarify misconceptions and errors in the literature.
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Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation
TL;DR: This work adapts an algorithm and uses it to implement a general-purpose, multiple imputation model for missing data that is considerably faster and easier to use than the leading method recommended in the statistics literature.
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Working With Missing Values
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of missing values are illustrated for a linear model, and a series of recommendations are provided for missing values can produce biased estimates, distorted statistical power, and invalid conclusions.
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cem: Coarsened exact matching in Stata
TL;DR: A Stata implementation of coarsened exact matching, a new method for improving the estimation of causal effects by reducing imbalance in covariates between treated and control groups, is introduced.