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An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data
September 08, 2021
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…
Neal Beck: 50 Years of Political Methodology and Some Suggestions for the Near Future
April 29, 2021
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…
The Second Joint Meeting of the Asian Political Methodology group and the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science (AsianPolmeth VIII & ASQPS IX)
March 03, 2021
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…
Measuring Aggregate Policy Priorities of the U.S. House of Representatives
January 08, 2021
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…
The Political Methodologist Updates
December 10, 2020
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…
Pandemic teaching and research: A few simple tips to improve video streaming quality
April 01, 2020
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…
But Shouldn’t That Work Against Me?
May 24, 2019
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…
Utilizing Javascript in Qualtrics for Survey Experimental Designs
May 23, 2019
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…
The 2019 Asian Political Methodology Meeting
February 06, 2019
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…
Corrigendum to “Lowering the Threshold of Statistical Significance to p < 0.005 to Encourage Enriched Theories of Politics” and “Questions and Answers: Reproducibility and a Stricter Threshold for Statistical Significance”
December 02, 2018
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…