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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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Community Structure in the United Nations General Assembly
TL;DR: The need to consider multiple resolution parameters and explore the effectiveness of each network representation for identifying voting groups amidst the large amount of agreement typical in General Assembly votes is illustrated.
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Towards a theory of external democracy promotion A proposal for theoretical classification
Jonas Wolff,Iris Wurm +1 more
TL;DR: A few years ago, it was a common complaint that the international dimension of democratization and, in particular, the external promotion of democracy were largely neglected by scholars of comparat...
Democracy and Development: A Complex Relationship by
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the empirical literature on the relationship between democracy and development is presented, and three surveys of these empirical studies come out with three different conclusions: one by Sirowy and Inkeles (1991), one by Campos (1994), and one by Przeworski and Limongi (1993).
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Systemic Representation: Democracy, Deliberation, and Nonelectoral Representatives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between non-electoral representatives and democratic legitimacy by combining the recent constructivist turn in political representation with systemic work in deliberative theory.
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Voter Buying: Shaping the Electorate through Clientelism
F. Daniel Hidalgo,Simeon Nichter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rewards not only influence actions of the electorate, but can also shape its composition, and demonstrate that voter buying demonstrates how clientelism can underpin electoral fraud and offers an explanation of why machines deliver rewards when they cannot monitor vote choices.