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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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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.
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
James Habyarimana,Macartan Humphreys,Daniel N. Posner,Jeremy M. Weinstein,Jeremy M. Weinstein +4 more
TL;DR: This article found that successful collective action among homogenous ethnic communities in urban Uganda is attributable to the existence of norms and institutions that facilitate the sanctioning of non-contributors, and that there is no evidence for a commonality of tastes within ethnic groups, for greater degrees of altruism toward co-ethnics, or for an impact of shared ethnicity on the productivity of teams.
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How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation
TL;DR: This paper used extensive observational and experimental evidence to show how legislators' credit claiming messages and not just money spent in the district affect how constituents allocate credit, and found that voters are more responsive to the total number of messages sent rather than the amount claimed.
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Useful Fiction or Miracle Maker: The Competing Epistemological Foundations of Rational Choice Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, two main positions in the philosophy of science, instrumentalist-empiricism and scientific-realism, act as competing epistemological foundations for rational choice theory, and illustrate how these philosophical perspectives help political scientists understand what is at stake in the theoretical debates surrounding the rationality assumption, self-interest, and methodological individualism.
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The official language problem
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the problem of choosing an efficient and fair language policy for a plurilingual polity and showed that a fair policy can be found under some conditions.
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Candidate genes and political behavior
Evan Charney,William English +1 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated, on the basis of the data set employed by Fowler and Dawes, that two genes do not predict voter turnout, and a number of difficulties that beset the use of gene association studies, both candidate and genome-wide, in the social and behavioral sciences are considered.