Tools, Techniques, and Traps: Latest Advances in Political Methology Research

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This page features compilations of links to data collections, authors, and journals for political science research on political methodology.

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Teach Political Analysis

Theory & Concepts:
The Essentials of Political Analysis, 7th Edition. Classic introductory text, clear writing, helps students learn, great ancillaries. More info.

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Uncertainty Estimates
By Gary King, part 7 of 19-part course (29:22)


MTurk Research: Recommendations and Best Practices
Research presentation for GWU (5:51)

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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Not So Standard Deviations: .Roger Peng and Hilary Parker talk about the latest in data science and data analysis in academia and industry.

Political Analysis: .Academic journal featuring new ideas for the empirical analysis of politics.

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: .From Andrew Gelman and co-authors.

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R Program Resources

Reproducible Data Treatment with R
Web course material from Colin Bousige

R-Forge
Central platform for the development of R packages, R-related software and further projects.

Data Analytics
From Mark Gardener, resources for data analysis and especially in the use of R

R Short Reference Card
A cheat-sheet type reference, very helpful.

Rweb
A web-based interface to R

Show Me Shiney
A gallery of interactive R web apps.

Quick-R: Advanced Graphs
Useful reference on advanced graph types that you can use to visualize multi-dimensional relationships.

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Replication Datasets for New Articles

A Bias-Corrected Estimator for the Crosswise Model With Inattentive RespondentsYuki Atsusaka, +1 more author (2023) POLAN, more info.
R files: 13, datasets: 1, text files: 1

An Improved Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social ScienceConnor Jerzak, +2 more authors (2023) POLAN, more info.
archives: 2

Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political TextsMoritz Osnabrügge, +2 more authors (2023) POLAN, more info.
archives: 2

Identification of Preferences in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments: Reassessing the Quantity of InterestFlavien Ganter (2023) POLAN, more info.
R files: 10, PDF files: 6, datasets: 4

Implementing Partisan Symmetry: Problems and ParadoxesDaryl DeFord, +6 more authors (2023) POLAN, more info.
other files: 110, text files: 18, datasets: 170

Statistically Valid Inferences from Differentially Private Data Releases, With Application to the Facebook URLs DatasetGeorgina Evans, +1 more author (2023) POLAN, more info.
R files: 11, PDF files: 5, other files: 2, datasets: 1, text files: 1

Threat-Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responses*Shane Singh, +1 more author (2023) AJPS, more info.
Stata files: 8, PDF files: 1, datasets: 13, text files: 1

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Authors with Datasets

Alexander Coppock .

Xavier Fernendez-i-Marin .University of Barcelona

Jeff Gill .American University

Kosuke Imai .

Gary King .Harvard University

Carlisle Rainey .

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