Irrelevant Events like College Football Games Do Not Likely Influence Elections
Previous studies claim that politically irrelevant events influence voting behavior. For example, droughts, floods, tornadoes, shark attacks, and even college…
A call for an open science approach to improve the transparency of observational research
The credibility of scientific inquiry depends on researchers’ ability to replicate previous findings. However, publication biases that favor statistically significant…
Does desert matter to social justice?
Would a just society be more equal, economically? John Rawls’s theory of justice is famous for three principles that speak…
I´m Speaking! Interruptions in Legislative Speeches and Women´s Strategic Behavior
For decades, the literature on gender and legislative politics has explored the increasing female political representation (Geys and Mause 2014;…
Collateral Damage from a Targeted Recall Campaign: How Efforts to Remove Judge Aaron Persky Affected the Behavior of Other California Judges (and What This Tells Us About Electoral Incentives More Generally)
On January 28, 2015, Brock Turner, a Stanford student athlete, sexually assaulted Chanel Miller, a visiting student. (Miller has expressed…
Governments use international organizations to hide contentious foreign policies
It is an open secret in international politics that governments sometimes use money to buy political support from other governments.…
Machine Learning for Small-Area Survey Measures
We propose a method to estimate sub-national public opinion from national survey data. Our approach extends the current gold-standard, multilevel…
How political parties address the past, present and future
“A lot done. More to do.” The Irish party Fianna Fáil used this slogan as their central message of the…
Who’s afraid of ideals? A defence of ideal theory
What is often referred to as ‘ideal theory’ in political philosophy, represented by theorists like John Rawls, is under attack…
The Social Dynamics of Collective Action
Social unrest often begins suddenly and spreads quickly. How does social unrest diffuse? This is the question we address in…