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Replication Materials for "Long-Term Policymaking and Politicians’ Beliefs about Voters: Evidence from a Three-Year Panel Study of Politicians"
No full textThis entry contains replication materials for all figures and tables reported in the manuscript and appendix of "Long-Term Policymaking and Politicians’ Beliefs about Voters: Evidence from a Three-Year Panel Study of Politicians", published in Governance
Replication Data for: Electoral Confidence, Overconfidence, and Risky Behavior: Evidence From a Study With Elected Politicians
No full textReplication materials for "Electoral Confidence, Overconfidence, and Risky Behavior: Evidence From a Study With Elected Politicians". This data set contains code and data for replicating the graphs, tables, and various analysis results reported in the paper and in the online appendix
Replication Data for: Electoral Confidence, Overconfidence, and Risky Behavior: Evidence From a Study With Elected Politicians
No full textReplication materials for "Electoral Confidence, Overconfidence, and Risky Behavior: Evidence From a Study With Elected Politicians". This data set contains code and data for replicating the graphs, tables, and various analysis results reported in the paper and in the online appendix
Replication Data for: How Do Politicians Bargain? Evidence from Ultimatum Games with Legislators in Five Countries
No full textOnline supplementary information appendix and replication materials for the manuscript in the title
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
Behavioural Foundations of Elite Politics: How Individual-Level Characteristics Shape the Decision Making of Elected Politicians
Full text linkWhat kind of decisions makers are elected politicians? Do they exhibit the same cognitive biases and choice anomalies that plague the reasoning of everyday citizens? Do they acquire some degree of expertise that makes their decision making systematically different? And what explains differences between different groups of politicians in how they confront policy problems and other in-office challenges? This dissertation consists of five papers that attempt to provide empirical answers for these questions from an individual-level behavioural perspective. These papers use evidence derived principally from in-person and online experiments conducted with hundreds of incumbent politicians and thousands of citizens in four countries. I find that politicians are equally susceptible as citizens to a series of policy-critical choice anomalies, including equivalency framing effects, the status-quo bias, escalation of commitment in face of sunk costs, and discounting future payoffs. In some cases they exhibit certain biases even more strongly than non-elites. I further document systematic differences between politicians in these domains, in ways that are directly tied to being held politically accountable and to the nature of their elected office: representatives who are more overconfident regarding their likelihood of being re-elected exhibit stronger risk-seeking behaviour; local officials who report an interest in future office-holding are strongly responsive to accountability cues, resulting in greater willingness to take risks, while those who are uninterested in re-election exhibit no behaviour change; and female and male politicians respond in opposite ways to being held publicly accountable, with men being significantly more likely to abandon policy choices presented as the status quo, and women becoming more entrenched in it. Finally, I use a formal model to analyze the implication of heterogeneity among elected officials in their capacity to engage in strategic reasoning in the context of elite frame production. Together, the papers in this dissertation provide an empirically-grounded and nuanced set of insights on elite decision making in politics that question the adequacy of numerous influential political science models and theories, which have either been relying on untested assumptions regarding elite behaviour, or have overlooked them altogether.Ph.D
Behavioural Foundations of Elite Politics: How Individual-Level Characteristics Shape the Decision Making of Elected Politicians
No full textWhat kind of decisions makers are elected politicians? Do they exhibit the same cognitive biases and choice anomalies that plague the reasoning of everyday citizens? Do they acquire some degree of expertise that makes their decision making systematically different? And what explains differences between different groups of politicians in how they confront policy problems and other in-office challenges? This dissertation consists of five papers that attempt to provide empirical answers for these questions from an individual-level behavioural perspective. These papers use evidence derived principally from in-person and online experiments conducted with hundreds of incumbent politicians and thousands of citizens in four countries. I find that politicians are equally susceptible as citizens to a series of policy-critical choice anomalies, including equivalency framing effects, the status-quo bias, escalation of commitment in face of sunk costs, and discounting future payoffs. In some cases they exhibit certain biases even more strongly than non-elites. I further document systematic differences between politicians in these domains, in ways that are directly tied to being held politically accountable and to the nature of their elected office: representatives who are more overconfident regarding their likelihood of being re-elected exhibit stronger risk-seeking behaviour; local officials who report an interest in future office-holding are strongly responsive to accountability cues, resulting in greater willingness to take risks, while those who are uninterested in re-election exhibit no behaviour change; and female and male politicians respond in opposite ways to being held publicly accountable, with men being significantly more likely to abandon policy choices presented as the status quo, and women becoming more entrenched in it. Finally, I use a formal model to analyze the implication of heterogeneity among elected officials in their capacity to engage in strategic reasoning in the context of elite frame production. Together, the papers in this dissertation provide an empirically-grounded and nuanced set of insights on elite decision making in politics that question the adequacy of numerous influential political science models and theories, which have either been relying on untested assumptions regarding elite behaviour, or have overlooked them altogether.Ph.D
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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