Danbischof

Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

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Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?

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Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides?

Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts:
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Coalition bargaining time and governments’ policy‐making productivity What is the purpose of lengthy negotiations when a coalition government forms? Do they make a difference in coalition policy-making? Negotiations that produce policy agreements between coalition part...

When you learn about "controlling on a post-treatment variable", you begin to see it everywhere. Today's example: do coalition governments that take longer to form work quicker when they take the reins? doi.org/10.1111/1475... (1/n)

With No. 10 not having qualified yet.

You missed Lothar Matthäus on this list.

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility.

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Konrad-Adenauer-Haus: Walter Lübcke gehört nicht der CDU Die CDU schäumt: Eine Aktionsgruppe hat die Statue des von einem Rechtsextremen ermordeten Lübcke vor ihre Zentrale gestellt. "Geschmacklos", findet Merz. Was soll das?

Die CDU ist empört über die Bronzestatue von Walter #Lübcke vor ihrer Parteizentrale. Ich bin empört über die Reaktion der CDU.
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I have brought the distinction up when talking to colleagues. The response was frequently that it’s „weird“ to think that experiments are a measurement tool at times…would be good to teach this!

keep em coming...

It is a "yes" to more invites to Southampton and to the LSE ;)

The "credibility revolution" doesn’t ask every paper to have an explicit identification strategy.

It asks that without one, you must be clear about the limits and admit you cannot claim causality with your quant study.

Anytime!

Or @danjdevine.bsky.social is correct...

I've never been to Southampton. Now I'm eager to change that...

Also the reply then should not be: let's do observational.

No, the reply then should be: let's do field experiments. ;)

I mean if you read between the lines some of these criticism are fairly basic, we have heard them for forever, some dont even apply (mundane reality criticism). To me many takes do not sound like unbalanced diet but please refrain from survey exp.
Few takes are balanced.

Survey experiments are certainly not a golden bullet.

But a) think about where we came from (large data with poor measures and strong modeling assumptions) b) they are far from being as bad as so many want them to be.

For once: Maybe we could be humble about different approaches.

Also: Survey Experiments are affordable for most (then N might suffer but anyone can run a survey exp on 600 respondents). Field experiments remain accessible to very few scholars with access to superb resources.

This is an impressive project. My reaction to what it shows though is that survey experiments have gotten out of hand in polisci. I will blog more on this, but I do not think survey experiments are emblematic of the credibility revolution. Some are already interpreting as such, which is a problem.

This is pretty amazing. Read it.

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It was our pleasure having you, @fialalenka.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social here @uni-muenster.de - great to see many people from several disciplines working together to improve (social) science!

Thanks also @aufdroeseler.bsky.social #MüCOS & Katrin & Oliver #CDSC for making co-orga fun!

On the side: might be wise to report more on the actual situation on the living standards of asylum seekers. Give that a platform.

Instead news are full with citizens „feeling reports“ or what politicians on the right think citizens feel.

Geflüchtetenunterkunft in Hamburg: Keine Fenster, kaum Ruhe, Schimmel In Hamburg-Harburg leben fast 600 Geflüchtete in einer Lagerhalle unter Neonlicht, teilweise seit Jahren. Die Behörden sagen: Wir haben keine Alternative.

There is also full exposure to this: any train to the South passes this „camp“. I’m seeing the situation anytime I commute to Münster.

Shitshow. We can do better:

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Last Friday we held Munster Replication Games (@uni-muenster.de jointly with #MüCOS and #CDSC). Sixty researchers replicated fifteen papers: well done, everybody! Many thanks to the local organizers as well, @bschlipphak.bsky.social and @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and Katrin Schmietendorf :)

‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.

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Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

Nice to see this published. I frequently complain about small sized experiments. We shouldn’t run these.

„the importance of sample size stemmed from small effect sizes across studies (perhaps smaller than researchers may have anticipated), highlighting a tension between commonly used power calculi and determining what constitutes a “meaningful effect.“