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Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Nikolay Marinov; Susan D. Hyde, 2013, "Which Elections Can Be Lost?", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/2XL4V3, Yale Dataverse, V2
The concept of electoral competition is relevant to a variety of research agendas in political science, yet the question of how to measure electoral competition has received little direct attention. We revisit the distinction proposed by Giovanni Sartori between competition as a structure or rule of the game and competitiveness as an outcome of tha... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Nikolay Marinov, 2012, "Voter Attitudes When Democracy Promotion Turns Partisan: Evidence From a Survey-Experiment in Lebanon", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/VERU3G, Yale Dataverse, V2
This article studies how voters react when foreign powers support a particular political party in a fragile democracy. The article identifies which voters believe the intervention plays a positive role in the electoral process and which voters have the opposite opinion. The article argues that educated and politically sophisticated voters will reje... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Alan S. Gerber; Donald P. Green, 2012, "Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/VUH8KD, Yale Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:GG8Nr/W5+LOi23+7Ezi3AQ== [fileUNF]
Gerber, Alan S., and Donald P. Green. 2012. Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation. New York: W.W. Norton. |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Eric Brunner; Stephen L. Ross; Ebonya Washington, 2013, "Does Less Income Mean Less Representation?", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/YUVYJP, Yale Dataverse, V2
We assemble a novel dataset of matched legislative and constituent votes and demonstrate that less income does not mean less representation. We show: (i) The opinions of high- and low-income voters are highly correlated; the legislator's vote often reflects the desire of both. (ii) What differences in representation by income exist vary by legislat... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Kevin Arceneaux, 2012, "Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/LLY9L4, Yale Dataverse, V2
Competition in political debate is not always sufficient to neutralize the effects of political rhetoric on public opinion. Yet little is known about the factors that shape the persuasiveness of political arguments. In this article, I consider whether cognitive biases influence the perceived strength of political arguments, making some arguments mo... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Ryan Garcia, 2015, "National Service and Civic Engagement: A Natural Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/YGHPRX, Yale Dataverse, V2
Nearly all studies that seek to uncover the effects of military service on the individual are plagued with the self-selection bias that comes with studying the all-volunteer force. To solve this problem, this paper takes advantage of the natural experiment afforded by the suspension of the French National Service program to produce unbiased causal... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Xiaobo Lü; Kenneth Scheve; Matthew J. Slaughter, 2012, "Inequity Aversion and the International Distribution of Trade Protection", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/Q9RDXT, Yale Dataverse, V2
One important puzzle in international political economy is why lower-earning and less-skilled intensive industries tend to receive relatively high levels of trade protection. This pattern of protection holds across countries with vastly different economic and political characteristics and is not well accounted for in existing political economy mode... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Kenneth Scheve; David Stasavage, 2012, "Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/HM1XSX, Yale Dataverse, V2
In this article we use an original data set to provide the first empirical analysis of the political economy of inherited wealth taxation that covers a significant number of countries and a long time frame (1816–2000). Our goal is to understand why, if inheritance taxes are often very old taxes, the implementation of inheritance tax rates significa... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Daniel Corstange; Nikolay Marinov, 2012, "Taking Sides in Other People's Elections: The Polarizing Effect of Foreign Intervention", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/VY0ZUJ, Yale Dataverse, V2
What do voters think when outside powers become de facto participants in a country’s election? We conceptualize two types of foreign intervention: a partisan stance, where the outsider roots for a particular candidate slate, and a process stance, where outsiders support the democratic process. We theorize that a partisan outside message will polari... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Daniel Butler; Christopher F. Karpowitz; Jeremy C. Pope, 2017, "A Field Experiment on Legislators' Home Styles: Service versus Policy", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/9CNGGQ, Yale Dataverse, V2
We conducted a field experiment involving roughly 1,000 letters sent by actual individuals to nearly 500 different legislative offices in order to test whether legislative offices prioritize service over policy in their home style. We find strong evidence that both state and federal legislative offices are more responsive to service requests than t... |
