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Replication Data for: The Politics of Forgiveness Feb 14, 2022 Hill, Mark, 2022, "Replication Data for: The Politics of Forgiveness", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GXQXD9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:CBSPfI9itOdp5Wjub3pN2g== [fileUNF] While the United States’ electoral system is thought to incentivize those entrusted with power to serve as adequate and responsible representatives, it also provides voters the ability to hold those who violate this trust accountable when such an incentive is not enough to ensure proper behavior. However, it has been suggested that members of the e...
Replication Data for: Who Guards the Guardians? Political Accountability over the Police in the United States Feb 14, 2022 Zoorob, Michael, 2022, "Replication Data for: Who Guards the Guardians? Political Accountability over the Police in the United States", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IXRH7Y, Harvard Dataverse, V1 Under what conditions can citizens hold government officials accountable for their behavior? I examine accountability over the police, a pervasive face of the state as experienced by most people. Like elected politicians, police enjoy significant discretion, limited oversight, power, and corruptibility. Continued problems of police violence and dis...
Replication Data for: Case Studies in Public Interest Technology Feb 14, 2022 Zang, Jinyan; Sweeney, Latanya, 2022, "Replication Data for: Case Studies in Public Interest Technology", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D2A279, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:XACoJaGEmZk/OdiANhaNYw== [fileUNF] Case Studies in Public Interest Technology Today, there are multiple ways where digital technologies adversely impacts the public interest, whether that’s the spread of misinformation online, the loss of privacy, the threat of algorithmic discrimination, and more. Public interest technology is an emerging field that seeks to use cross-disciplinary...
Replication Data for: Public Opinion in the Opioid Crisis: Essays on Salience, Policy, and Attribution Feb 14, 2022 Chaky, Christopher, 2022, "Replication Data for: Public Opinion in the Opioid Crisis: Essays on Salience, Policy, and Attribution", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9BEH6C, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:664i4x8mvpJKlzMbaa1UyQ== [fileUNF] These datasets contain the quantitative data used in my dissertation, "Public Opinion in the Opioid Crisis: Essays on Salience, Policy, and Attribution." Surveys from Pew and some surveys from Kaiser were obtained via a special data use agreement, so I have not included them in the uploaded files. As I continue to develop these projects, this data...
Replication Data for: "The Swing Voter Paradox: Electoral Politics in a Nationalized Era" Feb 14, 2022 Kuriwaki, Shiro, 2022, "Replication Data for: "The Swing Voter Paradox: Electoral Politics in a Nationalized Era"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GEA0CI, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:jbCQr1Nt7edkN8OZFdhUFA== [fileUNF] With each successive Congressional election since at least 1994, American politics has transitioned into a full two-party government. Fewer voters split their tickets for diﬀerent parties between President and Congress. Regional blocs and incumbency voting — a key feature of U.S. elections in the latter 20th century — appear to have given way to st...
Replication Data for: “Electoral Weakness of Secular Parties in the Middle East and North Africa during the Post-Uprisings Era of the 2010s” Feb 14, 2022 Sasmaz, Muharrem Aytug, 2022, "Replication Data for: “Electoral Weakness of Secular Parties in the Middle East and North Africa during the Post-Uprisings Era of the 2010s”", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XJR4D2, Harvard Dataverse, V1 This dataverse contains original quantitative data I collected for my dissertation project. With candidate and household surveys in Tunisia and Turkey, I collected data on political selection patterns and local-level organizational and ideological characteristics of the main secular and Islamist parties. In the dissertation, I argue that the electo...
Replication Data for: Essays on Social Institutions and Development Feb 14, 2022 Balan, Pablo, 2022, "Replication Data for: Essays on Social Institutions and Development", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WJYIQ6, Harvard Dataverse, V1 This dataverse contains the replication data for the empirical chapters of my dissertation “Essays on Social Institutions and Development”. Please direct any questions at balanpablo@gmail.com (2021-09-08).
Replication Data for: Political Career Ambition and Legislative Representation in the United States Feb 14, 2022 Kilborn, Mitchell, 2022, "Replication Data for: Political Career Ambition and Legislative Representation in the United States", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VXGXDJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:cTr2r+nZtf1cTUG1EgZWtQ== [fileUNF] Voters and researchers alike have worried that American politicians may prioritize career ambitions over constituent preferences, but does ambition for a career in politics affect how legislators in the United States represent their constituents? In this three-paper dissertation, I deploy a variety of original data on constituent preferences and le...
Replication Data for: Identification Politics: Information, Distribution, and the State in Sub-Saharan Africa Feb 14, 2022 Bowles, Jeremy, 2022, "Replication Data for: Identification Politics: Information, Distribution, and the State in Sub-Saharan Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/F1PSVF, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:JGPSlCFkVcEZ7pGzwA3ggw== [fileUNF] This package contains the datasets for the three papers in my dissertation. Please note that these datasets are likely out of date; please check my website or get in touch for up to date replication files as I develop the papers further. Abstract: A distinguished literature in political science conceives of states as seeking to impose uniform contr...
Replication Data for: Essays on Bayesian Methods and Machine Learning for Political Science Nov 18, 2020 Goplerud, Max, 2020, "Replication Data for: Essays on Bayesian Methods and Machine Learning for Political Science", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8Q42OQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1 This dissertation presents three papers on Bayesian methods and machine learning applied to research questions in political science. The papers are unified by creating new methods that extend research from other disciplines to target specific substantive questions faced by social scientists. The first paper is focused on ``Bayesian structured spars...

Replication Data for: The Politics of Forgiveness

Feb 14, 2022

Hill, Mark, 2022, "Replication Data for: The Politics of Forgiveness", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GXQXD9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:CBSPfI9itOdp5Wjub3pN2g== [fileUNF]

While the United States’ electoral system is thought to incentivize those entrusted with power to serve as adequate and responsible representatives, it also provides voters the ability to hold those who violate this trust accountable when such an incentive is not enough to ensure proper behavior. However, it has been suggested that members of the e...

Replication Data for: Who Guards the Guardians? Political Accountability over the Police in the United States

Feb 14, 2022

Zoorob, Michael, 2022, "Replication Data for: Who Guards the Guardians? Political Accountability over the Police in the United States", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IXRH7Y, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Under what conditions can citizens hold government officials accountable for their behavior? I examine accountability over the police, a pervasive face of the state as experienced by most people. Like elected politicians, police enjoy significant discretion, limited oversight, power, and corruptibility. Continued problems of police violence and dis...

Replication Data for: Case Studies in Public Interest Technology

Feb 14, 2022

Zang, Jinyan; Sweeney, Latanya, 2022, "Replication Data for: Case Studies in Public Interest Technology", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D2A279, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:XACoJaGEmZk/OdiANhaNYw== [fileUNF]

Case Studies in Public Interest Technology Today, there are multiple ways where digital technologies adversely impacts the public interest, whether that’s the spread of misinformation online, the loss of privacy, the threat of algorithmic discrimination, and more. Public interest technology is an emerging field that seeks to use cross-disciplinary...

Replication Data for: Public Opinion in the Opioid Crisis: Essays on Salience, Policy, and Attribution

Feb 14, 2022

Chaky, Christopher, 2022, "Replication Data for: Public Opinion in the Opioid Crisis: Essays on Salience, Policy, and Attribution", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9BEH6C, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:664i4x8mvpJKlzMbaa1UyQ== [fileUNF]

These datasets contain the quantitative data used in my dissertation, "Public Opinion in the Opioid Crisis: Essays on Salience, Policy, and Attribution." Surveys from Pew and some surveys from Kaiser were obtained via a special data use agreement, so I have not included them in the uploaded files. As I continue to develop these projects, this data...

Replication Data for: "The Swing Voter Paradox: Electoral Politics in a Nationalized Era"

Feb 14, 2022

Kuriwaki, Shiro, 2022, "Replication Data for: "The Swing Voter Paradox: Electoral Politics in a Nationalized Era"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GEA0CI, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:jbCQr1Nt7edkN8OZFdhUFA== [fileUNF]

With each successive Congressional election since at least 1994, American politics has transitioned into a full two-party government. Fewer voters split their tickets for diﬀerent parties between President and Congress. Regional blocs and incumbency voting — a key feature of U.S. elections in the latter 20th century — appear to have given way to st...

Replication Data for: “Electoral Weakness of Secular Parties in the Middle East and North Africa during the Post-Uprisings Era of the 2010s”

Feb 14, 2022

Sasmaz, Muharrem Aytug, 2022, "Replication Data for: “Electoral Weakness of Secular Parties in the Middle East and North Africa during the Post-Uprisings Era of the 2010s”", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XJR4D2, Harvard Dataverse, V1

This dataverse contains original quantitative data I collected for my dissertation project. With candidate and household surveys in Tunisia and Turkey, I collected data on political selection patterns and local-level organizational and ideological characteristics of the main secular and Islamist parties. In the dissertation, I argue that the electo...

Replication Data for: Essays on Social Institutions and Development

Feb 14, 2022

Balan, Pablo, 2022, "Replication Data for: Essays on Social Institutions and Development", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WJYIQ6, Harvard Dataverse, V1

This dataverse contains the replication data for the empirical chapters of my dissertation “Essays on Social Institutions and Development”. Please direct any questions at balanpablo@gmail.com (2021-09-08).

Replication Data for: Political Career Ambition and Legislative Representation in the United States

Feb 14, 2022

Kilborn, Mitchell, 2022, "Replication Data for: Political Career Ambition and Legislative Representation in the United States", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VXGXDJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:cTr2r+nZtf1cTUG1EgZWtQ== [fileUNF]

Voters and researchers alike have worried that American politicians may prioritize career ambitions over constituent preferences, but does ambition for a career in politics affect how legislators in the United States represent their constituents? In this three-paper dissertation, I deploy a variety of original data on constituent preferences and le...

Replication Data for: Identification Politics: Information, Distribution, and the State in Sub-Saharan Africa

Feb 14, 2022

Bowles, Jeremy, 2022, "Replication Data for: Identification Politics: Information, Distribution, and the State in Sub-Saharan Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/F1PSVF, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:JGPSlCFkVcEZ7pGzwA3ggw== [fileUNF]

This package contains the datasets for the three papers in my dissertation. Please note that these datasets are likely out of date; please check my website or get in touch for up to date replication files as I develop the papers further. Abstract: A distinguished literature in political science conceives of states as seeking to impose uniform contr...

Replication Data for: Essays on Bayesian Methods and Machine Learning for Political Science

Nov 18, 2020

Goplerud, Max, 2020, "Replication Data for: Essays on Bayesian Methods and Machine Learning for Political Science", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8Q42OQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1

This dissertation presents three papers on Bayesian methods and machine learning applied to research questions in political science. The papers are unified by creating new methods that extend research from other disciplines to target specific substantive questions faced by social scientists. The first paper is focused on ``Bayesian structured spars...

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