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Dec 10, 2019
Lall, Ranjit, 2019, "Replication Data for: Making International Organizations Work: The Politics of Institutional Performance", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LJBKNA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ReSldxMO2w1J8TXfIdCVYQ== [fileUNF]
International organizations (IOs) have emerged in recent decades as among the most important and influential actors in world politics. Surprisingly, however, we continue to know little about their performance – that is, the extent to which they achieve their objectives and do so in a manner that is cost-effective and responsive to a wide range of p...
Dec 10, 2019
Imlay, Samuel, 2019, "Replication Data for: Essays in Higher Education Politics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZKGJAV, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:k5rpfExMVyCUmjPfUXCIMQ== [fileUNF]
This three-paper dissertation considers how unequal college access informs voters' and parties' preferences over the level- and design of public higher-education subsidies in the United States. These files contain data and code required to replicate the analyses in each of the dissertation's three papers. "Higher-education spending in US public opi...
Dec 10, 2019
Strezhnev, Anton, 2019, "Replication Data for: Essays on Causal Inference and the International Investment Regime", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JMAQLD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:AyWpSpiZL+d1S/HMc2YVrQ== [fileUNF]
The included files provide replication data for each chapter of the dissertation "Essays on Causal Inference and the International Investment Regime." The abstract is below: In the last several decades, the growth of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and the incorporation of investment provisions into regional trade agreements has led to the dev...
Dec 10, 2019
Weitz, Shanna, 2019, "Replication Data for: Essays on Economic Segregation and Local Public Goods", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RBECVN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:4V7L4fslgV31rDVwqux2aA== [fileUNF]
This dissertation examines how economic segregation shapes the provision of local public goods. Past research finds that economic segregation affects political attitudes and participation. However, few studies examine how economic segregation shapes local policy outcomes, particularly outcomes concerning local public goods. Using data on local gove...
Dec 10, 2019
Lucas, Christopher, 2019, "Three Models for Audio-Visual Data in Politics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FHD6M2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:5o+oCXKM7XblI1SJFQVpPA== [fileUNF]
Audio-visual data is ubiquitous in politics. Campaign advertisements, political debates, and the news cycle all constantly generate sound bites and imagery, which in turn inform and affect voters. Though these sources of information have been a topic of research in political science for decades, their study has been limited by the cost of human cod...
Dec 10, 2019
Kruszewska, Dominika, 2019, "Replication Data for: From the Streets to the Party Lists: Electoral Advantages of Social Movement Activism", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D8JH3E, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:zwOqy7znb3MotN3e4PNA2w== [fileUNF]
Social movements form political parties, influence policy outcomes, and contribute to the renewal of political elites by supplying political candidates. Yet, we know little about the relationship between contentious and electoral politics. What are the electoral advantages of participation in social movement activism and under what conditions are t...
Dec 10, 2019
Komisarchik, Mayya, 2019, "Replication Data for: Essays On Race and Representation in American Politics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8D3VVR, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:mYr8PRQ6usmA5wQ01rzuSw== [fileUNF]
These files contain the data necessary to replicate the papers in my dissertation project. Please note that all papers with the exception of the compactness paper are in draft form. The data provided here apply to the dissertation versions of each paper. Replication data and code for the compactness paper appear in a separate archive.
Dec 10, 2019
Moskowitz, Daniel, 2019, "Replication Data for: Context and Accountability: How the Informational and Partisan Contexts Shape Voter Behavior and Representation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PDCTPK, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:xc1CelqKzA0VFjRhXtTMrA== [fileUNF]
This dissertation examines how the informational and partisan contexts affect the behavior of voters. I study these contextual effects by leveraging variation in contextual features induced by the geography of media markets and redistricting. The first essay investigates the extent to which the nationalization of the news explains the nationalizati...
Dec 10, 2019
Guan, Yichen, 2019, "Replication Data for: Engagement under Authoritarian Rule: Political Participation of Muslim Minorities in China", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NUGAJB, Harvard Dataverse, V1
While Chinese ethnic minorities are commonly viewed as possessing different political attitudes and patterns of political behavior from the Han majority, how exactly they engage in political participation and why has not been well studied. This investigation attempts to unpack ethnic political participation in China both theoretically and empirical...
Dec 10, 2019
Dezzani Huff, Connor, 2019, "Why Rebels Reject Peace", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/M6YHSD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:QMv3yjCNN8qHFTzNrxK4BA== [fileUNF]
Data for Dissertation: "Why Rebels Reject Peace"
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