Tsebelis & Nardi (2016) find evidence of constitutional length hampering economic performance. Martina Flick Witzig & Adrian Vatter show that these results are not robust. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…
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New article published! Seth Babson Warner & Dominik Stecuła consider the issue of PhD stipends falling short of a living wage from a pedagogical perspective. They find that higher graduate pay is significantly associated with more tenure-track placements. Read more: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

We are excited to announce that Research and Politics is now on LinkedIn! Please spread the word and become a follower of the LinkedIn group: linkedin.com/groups/1300960…

Why do we see an increase in attacks on LGBTQ+ flags? Alberto López highlights the influence of political affiliations and generational factors in shaping hostility towards LGBTQ+ symbols in Spain. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Ruijun Liu & Jin Woo Kim assess the effectiveness of detailed causal evidence vs. traditional consensus messaging in persuading climate skeptics. They find that both treatments had an effect, with the causal evidence being slightly more effective. doi.org/10.1177/205316…

This paper tests the performance of GPT4 in text coding across a range of common political science coding tasks in 4 languages. Michael Heseltine & Bernhard Clemm find that GPT4 coding is highly accurate, especially for shorter texts. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

New article! Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz exploits the unexpected no-vote in the 2016 Colombian plebiscite on the final agreement to end the conflict with the FARC. It increased public support for a negotiated rather than military settlement to the conflict. Read more: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Why are there so few working-class women in politics? Jeong Hyun Kim & Yesola Kweon find that working-class backgrounds disadvantage women candidates in a way that they do not disadvantage their male counterparts. Read more about their findings here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Payel Sen, Bryce J. Dietrich & Hyein Ko demonstrate how #trafficcamera data can be used to measure #voter turnout and provide ways such data can be used to assess political behaviour more broadly. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

A crucial question for understanding electoral outcomes in concurrent #elections for representatives in different government tiers is the existence of electoral spillovers. Andreu Arenas exploits a quasi-experiment to investigate this – read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Abel Brodeur
Kevin Esterling
Jörg Ankel-Peters
Natalia Bueno
Scott Desposato
Anna Dreber
Federica Genovese
Donald Green
Matthew Hepplewhite
Fernando Hoces de la Guardia
Magnus Johannesson
Andreas Kotsadam
Edward Miguel
Yamil Ricardo Velez
Lauren Young

Read the lead piece of the #specialissue on #replication by Brodeur et al. It reviews reproduction and replication practices in #PoliticalScience and makes the case for standards that can help promote reproducibility and replicability.
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Can #AI accurately label open-text #survey responses? Jon Mellon James Breckwoldt Marta Miori Ralph Scott Jack Bailey and Phillip Schmedeman’s findings show that large language models code “most important issue” responses nearly as well as human coders: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

The literature suggests that meritocratic promotion boosts #growth in #China . Michael Wiebe replicates three studies focusing on prefecture-level officials and finds that the evidence for this relationship is not robust. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Does individual variation in affective empathetic capacity systematically condition a person's willingness to support pre-emptive military action? Max Plithides’s results from a #survey suggest it does. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316… #PoliticalScience

What do #PoliticalScientists think about #ResearchEthics ? What research practices do they find acceptable? @mia_i_costa@cdcrabtree John B. Holbein Michelangelo Landgrave address these questions in their study. Read about their findings here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

In the #US randomized control trials and public voting records are the two pillars of get-out-the-vote field experiments. What if neither is available in other countries? Kentaro Fukumoto proposes and investigates a second-best solution. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Based on their own research, Joost Berkhout Wiebke Marie Junk Marcel Hanegraaff and Michele Crepaz suggest three innovations to the focus group method that should make it appealing for political scientists who study professionals active in the policy process. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…