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Replication Data for: Evaluating the Effects of Shelter-in-Place Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textThis data set contains the data and code necessary to replicate all tables and figures in "Evaluating the Effects of Shelter-in-Place Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic," by Christopher Berry, Anthony Fowler, Tamara Glazer, Samantha Handel-Meyer, and Alec MacMillen
Replication Data for: Do Campaign Contributions Buy Favorable Policies? Evidence from the Insurance Industry
No full textTo learn about the effects of corporate campaign contributions, we study the potential influence of the insurance industry in U.S. state politics. The insurance industry is one of the biggest players in state politics, and we have collected new data on objective measures of the industry’s performance in each state over time. We exploit within-state changes in campaign finance regulations which can significantly restrict the ability of corporate contributors to give money and potentially influence elected officials. Across a range of outcomes and campaign finance reforms, we find little evidence that the ability to make corporate campaign contributions benefits the insurance industry in a state. Some results suggest that the ability to make campaign contributions may benefit the insurance industry in states with elected insurance commissioners, but overall, campaign contributions appear to have little distortionary effect even in a setting where we would, ex ante, most expect to find it
Aggregate Effects of Large-Scale Campaigns on Voter Turnout
No full textDespite the central role of campaigns in electoral politics and despite many experiments on campaigning, we know little about the aggregate effects of an entire campaign on voter participation. Drawing upon inside information from a U.S. presidential campaign and utilizing a geographic research design that exploits media markets spanning state boundaries, we estimate that the 2012 presidential campaign increased turnout in highly targeted states by 7-8 percentage points. Further evidence suggests that the predominant mechanism behind this effect is traditional ground campaigning, which has increased dramatically in recent years. Additionally, we find no evidence of diminishing marginal returns to ground campaigning, meaning that voter contacts can have large aggregate effects over the course of a campaign. stract in PSRM publicatio
Replication Data for: Updating amidst Disagreement: New Experimental Evidence on Partisan Cues
No full textIn this era of hyper-polarization and partisan animosity, do citizens incorporate opposing viewpoints? Perhaps not. An important body of research, in fact, finds that the provision of information about opponents’ policy views leads survey respondents to reflexively adopt the opposite position. In this paper, we demonstrate that such findings arise from incomplete experimental designs and a particular measurement strategy. In a series of experiments that vary information about both parties’ positions simultaneously and that solicit continuous, rather than discrete, policy positions, we find that partisans update their beliefs in accordance with the positions of Republican and Democratic leaders alike. Partisans are not perennially determined to disagree. Rather, they are often willing to incorporate opposing viewpoints about a wide range of policy issues
Distinguishing between False Positives and Genuine Results: The Case of Irrelevant Events and Elections
No full textThese data and code can be used to reproduce all analyses in the study, "Distinguishing between False Positives and Genuine Results: The Case of Irrelevant Events and Elections.
Replication Data for: Quid Pro Quo? Corporate Returns to Campaign Contributions
No full textThese files replicate the results in “Quid Pro Quo? Corporate Returns to Campaign Contributions” by Anthony Fowler, Haritz Garro, and Jörg L. Spenkuch
Replication Data for: Quid Pro Quo? Corporate Returns to Campaign Contributions
No full textThese files replicate the results in “Quid Pro Quo? Corporate Returns to Campaign Contributions” by Anthony Fowler, Haritz Garro, and Jörg L. Spenkuch
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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