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Title:Early voting experiences and habit formation Author(s):DINAS, Elias
; VALENTIM, Vicente
; BROBERG, Nikolaj Christian
; FRANKLIN, Mark N.Date:2023Citation:Political science research and methods, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:Research has shown that first-time voting experiences affect subsequent voting behavior, with salient elections boosting subsequent turnout and non-salient ones suppressing it. We challenge this view. Following research ...
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Title:The strange fate of the morphed ‘rump materialism’ : a comment on the vagaries of social science as seen through Alexander Wendt's quantum mind and social science Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich
Date:2022Citation:International theory, 2022, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 169-182Type:ArticleAbstract:In putting Wendt's recent Quantum Mind in a larger context both of his own disciplinary engagement and some larger philosophical issues, I try to avoid a hasty dismissal, since the book seems at first blush to offer a ...
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Title:Creating and comparing dictionary, word embedding, and transformer-based models to measure discrete emotions in German political text Author(s):WIDMANN, Tobias
; WICH, MaximilianDate:2022Citation:Political analysis, 2022, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:Previous research on emotional language relied heavily on off-the-shelf sentiment dictionaries that focus on negative and positive tone. These dictionaries are often tailored to nonpolitical domains and use bag-of-words ...
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Title:Preconditions for pacted transitions from authoritarian rule Author(s):IAKOVLEV, Gennadii
Date:2022Citation:European political science review, 2022, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:This paper investigates why some attempts at pacted transitions from non-democratic rule fail, while others succeed. It determines the composition of opposition organizations that enable pacting. The paper draws on a data ...
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Title:Academic placement records and gendered placements in the political science profession Author(s):FRESE, Joris
Date:2022Citation:European political science, 2022, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:There are many ways of quantifying the success of political science departments, all of which have advantages and disadvantages. The most relevant international rankings consider factors such as research quality, research ...