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By Justin Esarey

In my experience, one of the toughest things about being a political methodologist is often being the only member of the subfield in the department. It’s not always true, of...

By Justin Esarey

I recently noticed this Tweet from Carlisle Rainey, a methodologist at SUNY Buffalo and a fellow Florida State alumnus:

An essay by Tukey offers perspective on @justinesa...

By Thomas J. Leeper

Political scientists increasingly use data visualizations to communicate statistical results. These visualizations make those results clear and intuitive, and perhaps...

By Zach Jones

The decreasing cost of computing power and the increase in the availability of a variety of public data has made quantitative research much more attractive to quantitative social...

By Arthur Spirling

There can be few activities more anxiety-inducing than going on the job market. Once on the market, there can be few activities that are more anxiety-inducing than giving a...

By Justin Esarey

Last week, I assigned an exam problem for my graduate methods class wherein they would re-examine the Reinhardt-Rogoff result linking decreased GDP growth to increased national...

By Justin Esarey

We forward on this request from faculty members at WVU:

We are collecting syllabi from political scientists who teach undergraduate methods courses for a content analysis...

By Justin Esarey

The editors of The Political Methodologist and Meg Shannon of Florida State University are calling for papers for a special issue of TPM addressing diversity in the methods...

By Justin Esarey

Over at Andrew Gelman’s blog, there’s an interesting discussion going on about a new paper by Buttice and Highton assessing the accuracy of MRP estimates of state-level opinion...

By Justin Esarey

I recently had a discussion with some of my graduate students about what an ideal preparation for a PhD program in Political Science would look like. They were discussing the...