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Rain, rain, go away: 194 potential exclusion‐restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Instrumental variable (IV) analysis relies on the exclusion restriction—that the instrument only affects the dependent variable via its relationship with the independent variable and not via other causal routes. However, scholars generally justify the exclusion restriction based on its plausibility.
Jonathan Mellon
wiley   +1 more source

The Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set: A Survivor-Driven Consensus on Priority Outcomes for Recovery, Wellbeing, and Reintegration. [PDF]

open access: yesTrauma Violence Abuse
Jannesari S   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Community interventions in the administration of justice

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In theory, the administration of criminal justice is state business: Defendants are arrested, tried, and punished by state agents. In reality, citizens often attempt to intervene in this process—for example, by imposing their own punishments in lieu of, or in addition to, state penalties. We build a game‐theoretic model to investigate how such
Carlo M. Horz, Hannah K. Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Correcting misperceptions about ethno‐racial discrimination: The limits of evidence‐based awareness raising to promote support for equal‐treatment policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native‐majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informing citizens about field‐experimental audits on ethno‐racial discrimination increases their recognition of the issue and support for equal‐treatment
Merlin Schaeffer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mexico's physician shortage: struggling to bridge the gap. [PDF]

open access: yesLancet Reg Health Am
Ramonfaur D, Gómez-Dantés O.
europepmc   +1 more source

Empirical realism and democratic equality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Influencing Domestic Human Trafficking in Africa: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

open access: yesJMIR Res Protoc
Belaid L   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The choice argument for proportional representation

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
wiley   +1 more source

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