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An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data.

Joshua Alley

Department of Politics, University of Virginia

Finding accessible and interesting...

Last month (March 17, 2021-March 19, 2021) the University of Hamburg hosted PolMeth Europe 2021.  This virtual conference represents the first European PolMeth --- and as a participant in PolMeth...

By Kentaro Fukumoto, Professor, Gakushuin University (Kentaro.Fukumoto@gakushuin.ac.jp)

Last winter, we canceled the seventh Asian Political Methodology Meeting in Hong Kong due to the political...

By Philip D. Waggoner, University of Chicago

Abstract: Tracing individual policy priorities through bill sponsorship is a relatively common occurrence in policy research. Yet, do individual p...

Some of you may have been wondering what has happened to your favorite society publication, The Political Methodologist!

Well, it's back under temporary editorship, and we are happy to consider...

By Justin Esarey

While this isn’t normally a subject I’d cover in The Political Methodologist, I’ve noticed that many people (students and professors alike) are having trouble with live...

By Anthony Fowler

The refrain is ubiquitous in seminars, workshops, and the discussion sections of quantitative studies. An audience member or reviewer might raise one of the following...

By Justin de Benedictis-Kessner

Experiments have undeniably increased in their use within political science in the last twenty years (Druckman et al., 2006). Especially frequent in this rise of...

By Kentaro Fukumoto

[This post was contributed by Kentaro Fukumoto, Professor of Political Science at Gakushuin University.]

We held the joint conference of the 6th Asian Political...

By Justin Esarey

Although The Political Methodologist is a newsletter and blog, not a peer-reviewed publication, I still think it’s important for us to recognize and correct substantively...