How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies [PDF]
Political Analysis, 2023 Instrumental variable (IV) strategies are widely used in political science to establish causal relationships, but the identifying assumptions required by an IV design are demanding, and assessing their validity remains challenging.
Apoorva Lal +3 more
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Large language models and political science
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence that uses information from very large datasets to model the use of language and generate content.
Mitchell Linegar +2 more
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The Political Economy of Health: Bringing Political Science In
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print), 2023 The public's health is intimately linked to politics and policy. But political science has yet to make a major contribution to understanding the political economy of health (as distinct from medical care). In order to advance understanding of the drivers
J. Lynch
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Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print), 2023 Bureaucracy is everywhere. Unelected bureaucrats are a key link between government and citizens, between policy and implementation. Bureaucratic politics constitutes a growing share of research in political science.
Sarah Brierley +3 more
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Evaluating the status of theories of emotion in political science and psychology
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 Emotion is an increasingly influential area of research in psychology, political psychology, political science, and other social sciences. Research is best when driven by theory because the absence of theory generates research that can lack coherence and
G. Marcus
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American Political Science Review Editorial Report: Executive Summary (Fall 2022)
Political Science Today, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The American Political Science Review is the flagship journal of the American Political Science Association. The current editorial team began their editorship of the journal on June 1, 2020.
A. Tripp, Michelle L. Dion
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Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2023 A recently published dataset of Middle East and North Africa (MENA)–focused scholarship in journals selected to represent the disciplinary “core” of political science sheds empirical light on key publishing trends, from the balance between quantitative ...
A. Teti, P. Abbott
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Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science
Comparative Political Studies, 2023 Shared qualitative data – such as interview or focus group transcripts – can be used for secondary qualitative data analysis (SQDA). Yet, much archived qualitative data remains unused after primary analysis.
F. Kern, Katariina Mustasilta
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What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science
Political Science Research and Methods, 2021 Although attention to populism is ever-increasing, the concept remains contested. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of populism research and identifies tendencies to a conflation of host ideologies and populism in political science through a ...
Sophia Hunger, F. Paxton
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Gendered mundanities: gender bias in student evaluations of teaching in political science
Australian Journal of Political Science, 2022 Much research has been undertaken on gender bias in student evaluations of teaching (SETs) in universities, with inconsistent findings. We undertake a qualitative analysis of the comments in four years of SETs in a school of political science and ...
K. Gelber +3 more
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