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Replication Data for "News from the Other Side: How Topic Relevance Limits the Prevalence of Partisan Selective Exposure"
Included are survey data sets and .R script files necessary to replicate all tables and figures. Tables will display in the R console. Figures will save as .pdf files ot your working directory.
Instructions for Replication:
These materials will allow for replication in R. You can download data files in .R or .tab format. Save all files in a common folder (directory). Open the .R script file named “jop_replication_dataverse2.R” and change the working directory at the top of the script to the directory where you saved the replication materials.
Execute the code in this script file to generate all tables and figures displayed in the manuscript. The script is annotated. Take care to execute the appropriate lines when loading data sets depending on whether you downloaded the data in .R or .tab format (the script is written to accommodate both formats).
Note: the files "results.diff_rep.Rdata" and "results.diff2.Rdata" are R list objects and can only be opened in R.
Should you encounter any problems or have any questions, please contact the author at [email protected]
Replication Data for "News from the Other Side: How Topic Relevance Limits the Prevalence of Partisan Selective Exposure"
Included are survey data sets and .R script files necessary to replicate all tables and figures. Tables will display in the R console. Figures will save as .pdf files ot your working directory.
Instructions for Replication:
These materials will allow for replication in R. You can download data files in .R or .tab format. Save all files in a common folder (directory). Open the .R script file named “jop_replication_dataverse2.R” and change the working directory at the top of the script to the directory where you saved the replication materials.
Execute the code in this script file to generate all tables and figures displayed in the manuscript. The script is annotated. Take care to execute the appropriate lines when loading data sets depending on whether you downloaded the data in .R or .tab format (the script is written to accommodate both formats).
Note: the files "results.diff_rep.Rdata" and "results.diff2.Rdata" are R list objects and can only be opened in R.
Should you encounter any problems or have any questions, please contact the author at [email protected]
Militarization Fails to Enhance Police Safety or Reduce Crime, But May Harm Police Reputation
The increasingly visible presence of heavily armed police units in American communities has stoked widespread concern over the militarization of local law enforcement. Advocates claim militarized policing protects officers and deters violent crime, while critics allege these tactics are targeted at racial minorities and erode trust in law enforcement. Using a rare geocoded census of SWAT team deployments from Maryland, I show that militarized police units are more often deployed in communities with large shares of African American residents, even after controlling for local crime rates. Further, using nationwide panel data on local police militarization, I demonstrate that militarized policing fails to enhance officer safety or reduce local crime. Finally, using survey experiments---one of which includes a large oversample of African American respondents---I show that seeing militarized police in news reports may diminish police reputation in the mass public. In the case of militarized policing, the results suggest that the often-cited trade-off between public safety and civil liberties is a false choice
Militarization Fails to Enhance Police Safety or Reduce Crime, But May Harm Police Reputation
The increasingly visible presence of heavily armed police units in American communities has stoked widespread concern over the militarization of local law enforcement. Advocates claim militarized policing protects officers and deters violent crime, while critics allege these tactics are targeted at racial minorities and erode trust in law enforcement. Using a rare geocoded census of SWAT team deployments from Maryland, I show that militarized police units are more often deployed in communities with large shares of African American residents, even after controlling for local crime rates. Further, using nationwide panel data on local police militarization, I demonstrate that militarized policing fails to enhance officer safety or reduce local crime. Finally, using survey experiments---one of which includes a large oversample of African American respondents---I show that seeing militarized police in news reports may diminish police reputation in the mass public. In the case of militarized policing, the results suggest that the often-cited trade-off between public safety and civil liberties is a false choice
Replication Data for: Improving the Interpretation of Fixed Effects Regression Results
Fixed effects estimators are frequently used to limit selection bias. For example, it is well-known that with panel data, fixed effects models eliminate time-invariant confounding, estimating an independent variable's effect using only within-unit variation. When researchers interpret the results of fixed effects models, they should therefore consider hypothetical changes in the independent variable (counterfactuals) that could plausibly occur within units to avoid overstating the substantive importance of the variable's effect. In this article, we replicate several recent studies which used fixed effects estimators to show how descriptions of the substantive significance of results can be improved by precisely characterizing the variation being studied and presenting plausible counterfactuals. We provide a checklist for the interpretation of fixed effects regression results to help avoid these interpretative pitfalls
Replication Data for: Improving the Interpretation of Fixed Effects Regression Results
Fixed effects estimators are frequently used to limit selection bias. For example, it is well-known that with panel data, fixed effects models eliminate time-invariant confounding, estimating an independent variable's effect using only within-unit variation. When researchers interpret the results of fixed effects models, they should therefore consider hypothetical changes in the independent variable (counterfactuals) that could plausibly occur within units to avoid overstating the substantive importance of the variable's effect. In this article, we replicate several recent studies which used fixed effects estimators to show how descriptions of the substantive significance of results can be improved by precisely characterizing the variation being studied and presenting plausible counterfactuals. We provide a checklist for the interpretation of fixed effects regression results to help avoid these interpretative pitfalls
"Modern Police Tactics, Police-Citizen Interactions and the Prospects for Reform
Replication materials for main text and online appendix
"Modern Police Tactics, Police-Citizen Interactions and the Prospects for Reform
Replication materials for main text and online appendix
Replication Data for: Why Partisans Don't Sort
Contains R scripts and data needed to reproduce the analyses found in Mummolo and Nall, "Why Partisans Don't Sort: The Constraints on Political Segregation." Read READ ME FIRST.rtf or READ ME FIRST.pdf for instructions on executing replication archive contents
Replication Data for: Why Partisans Don't Sort
Contains R scripts and data needed to reproduce the analyses found in Mummolo and Nall, "Why Partisans Don't Sort: The Constraints on Political Segregation." Read READ ME FIRST.rtf or READ ME FIRST.pdf for instructions on executing replication archive contents
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