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Feb 9, 2012
Marcus Alexander, 2009, "Replication data for: Pathologies in American Democracy: The Partisan Politics of Medical Care", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LCKK4U, Harvard Dataverse, V4
This dissertation argues for a new understanding of the politics of health. Health politics is usually seen as merely another redistributive issue, no different than questions of taxation or other social policies. Scholars and policy-makers assume that the demand for government-funded health care is driven chiefly by the needs of the economically w... |
Feb 9, 2012
Alison E. Post, 2009, "Replication data for: Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/O2DG5D, Harvard Dataverse, V3
During the neo-liberal reform wave of the 1990s, scores of developing countries privatized infrastructure services such as highways, utilities and ports. This dissertation provides a new theoretical explanation of the varied outcomes of infrastructure privatization in weak institutional environments and an empirical assessment of the argument in th... |
Mark Valerian Andersen, 2008, "Replication data for: The distribution of educational opportunities in Massachusetts, 1996", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A7ZWD8, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:3:gTOXJP5vjJICPbo/hlDMDg== [fileUNF]
This thesis examines the relationship between community characteristics and one measure of educational opportunity, the secondary school curriculum, in a sample including most (221) Massachusetts secondary schools. Four curriculum characteristics are measured: curriculum breadth, depth, differentiation (loosely, ability grouping or tracking), and p... |
Andrew Eggers, 2010, "Replication data for: Replication data for "Opposition Representation and Policy Moderation: Evidence from French Municipalities", Chapter 1 of 'Three Papers in Empirical Political Economy'", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VHTFJM, Harvard Dataverse, V4
Abstract for Three Papers in Empirical Political Economy: This thesis presents three independent essays in applied political economy. The first paper examines the effect of opposition representation on policies adopted by municipal councils in France. The opposition is thought to play an important role in a variety of political institutions, but it... |
Patrick John Wolf, 2008, "Replication data for: What history advises about reinventing government: A case meta-analysis of bureaucratic effectiveness in United States federal agencies, 1995", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QUAIX8, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:3:MMkHv9WKDwbYMr1NS8j2fQ== [fileUNF]
Since the Progressive Era, scholars of American politics have been concerned with the question of what factors influence bureaucratic effectiveness, defined as the demonstrated ability of an agency to accomplish goals related to its mission. Although hundreds of historical case studies of U.S. federal agencies have been written, the various hypothe... |
Feb 9, 2012
Suzanna Challen, 2011, "Replication data for: Measuring Immigration Policy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N9NT1C, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:5:HOND3o2imWRY34xXe4bcnw== [fileUNF]
The dissertation consists of three chapters relating to the measurement of immigration policies, which developed out of my work as an initial co-author of the International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) Database Project. The first chapter entitled, “Brain Gain? Measuring skill bias in U.S. migrant admissions policy,” develops a concept... |
Christopher Constantine Afendulis, 2007, "Replication data for: Reform and its ramifications: The impact of term limits on legislative decision-making, 1997", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1LGTMH, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:3:AEEGQLraco/eyHI07Rm2iQ== [fileUNF]
What impact will term limits have on legislative decision making in the United States? This dissertation adds to a growing academic literature on this issue. The work is composed of three related essays, which draw upon ideas and tools from the field of legislative politics to evaluate the effects of the reforms. Using data on the tenure patterns o... |
Jan 31, 2012
Michael Kang, 2009, "Replication data for: National Agenda Setting and Health Care Reform", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DBVJIF, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:3:NvRpycRH57L9rs/TCqb6GQ== [fileUNF]
The national agenda—the subset of issues which national public opinion and policymakers regard as the country’s political priorities at the moment—changes over time and reflects a complex interaction between the public and political leaders, each influencing and responding to the other. For an issue to resonate on the national agenda, at least in m... |
Byron Lowell Winn, 2008, "Replication data for: Contested control: Congress, the President, and the Pentagon", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CED9HK, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:3:2UqDFR0+dqgunAcL/7G3qA== [fileUNF]
Congress and the President, with conflicting policy interests rooted in different constituencies, contend for control of the bureaucracy. Control of the bureaucracy is central to control of policy. Informed selection of personnel is a particularly efficient tool of bureaucratic control because it solves problems inherent in the principal-agent rela... |
Jan 30, 2012
Anders Schwartz Corr, 2008, "Replication data for: War, Technology, and Change: The Ratchet Effect and System Unification", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S07DYX, Harvard Dataverse, V3
I formalize and test the ratchet effect, a theory that variation in the offense-defense balance and the cost of war leads to increasing geographic size of units (e.g., states, empires, and superpowers) in the international system from the interaction of the offense-defense balance and the guns-and-butter tradeoff. When the cost of war is high, the... |
