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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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Representative bureaucracy, gender, and policing: the case of domestic violence arrests in england
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether increased representation of women in police forces in England leads to a higher rate of domestic violence arrests and found that the presence of a female police chief constable is positively associated with the domestic violence arrest rate, but only when they are accorded greater opportunity to carry out frontline police work.
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Participation in Mail Ballot Elections
TL;DR: In the past few years, local governments of varying sizes have experimented with a new idea conducting an entire election by mail as mentioned in this paper, which has the potential to increase voting, but do they?
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The Constraining Capacity of Legal Doctrine on the U.S. Supreme Court
TL;DR: In this paper, a new conceptualization of legal constraint examining how legal rules permit varying degrees of ideological discretion, which establishes how strongly ideological preferences will influence justices' votes, is proposed.
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Policy Signals and Executive Governance: Presidential Rhetoric in the War on Drugs
Andrew B. Whitford,Jeff Yates +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present statistical tests of the managerial power of presidential policy signals in the case of the United States Attorneys' implementation of the federal “War on Drugs.
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Identifying the median justice on the Supreme Court through multidimensional scaling: Analysis of "natural courts" 1953-1991 ∗
TL;DR: Ourdata et al. as discussed by the authors show that there is a very strong rightward drift in the composition of the Supreme Court as they move from the Warren Court to the Burger Court, and again as we move from Burger Court tothe Rehnquist Court.