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By Yanna Krupnikov and Adam Seth Levine

No research manuscript is perfect, and indeed peer reviews can often read like a laundry list of flaws. Some of the flaws are minor and can be easily...

By Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

[Ed. note: This post is contributed by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa.]

As...

By Tom Pepinsky

The peculiar thing about peer review is that it is central to our professional lives as political scientists, yet we tend to talk about refereeing only in the most general and...

By Thomas J. Leeper

Peer review — by which I mean the decision to publish research manuscripts based upon the anonymous critique of approximately three individuals — is a remarkably recent...

By Danilo Freire

Introduction

Peer review is an essential part of the modern scientific process. Sending manuscripts for others to scrutinize is such a widespread practice in academia that...

By Justin Esarey

This morning, The Political Methodologist begins publishing contributions to its special issue on peer review. Over the next month, our blog will post contributions that focus...

By Brendan Nyhan

The problems with peer review are increasingly recognized across the scientific community. Failures to provide timely reviews often lead to interminable delays for authors...

By Justin Esarey

Rice University is proud to host the 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology. The conference will take place from July 21-23, 2016 at Rice University in the...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, 11/6 at 12:00 noon Eastern (11:00 AM Central), the International Methods Colloquium will host a talk from Lonna Atkeson (University of New Mexico). The talk is...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, 10/23 at 12:00 noon Eastern (11:00 AM Central), the International Methods Colloquium will host a talk from Daniel Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania). The talk is...