Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom: Entitlements from the Inside by Campbell, Andrea

“…A family tragedy enables a social policy scholar to examine how American social assistance works from the recipient perspective. …”
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Quantitative research and issues of political sensitivity in rural China by Tsai, Lily L.

“…Political sensitivity is always a challenge for the scholar doing fieldwork in nondemocratic and transitional systems, especially when doing surveys and quantitative research. …”
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A “China in the World” Paradigm for Scholarship by Fravel, M. T, Manion, Melanie, Wang, Yuhua

“…More than this, the paradigm is about scholarly attentiveness to the fact that the politics in China that we study also shapes how the rest of the world views China. …”
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Beyond Emboldenment: How Acquiring Nuclear Weapons Can Change Foreign Policy by Bell, Mark Stephen

“…This typology of foreign policy behaviors enables scholars to move beyond simple claims of “nuclear emboldenment,” and allows for more nuanced examination of the ways in which nuclear weapons affect the foreign policies of current and future nuclear states. …”
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Wargaming for International Relations research by Lin-Greenberg, Erik, Pauly, Reid BC, Schneider, Jacquelyn G

“…This article evaluates how political scientists can use wargames as a method of scholarly inquiry and sets out to establish a research agenda for wargaming in International Relations. …”
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Learning from each other: causal inference and American political development by Jenkins, Jeffery A., McCarty, Nolan, Stewart III, Charles H

“…This special issue considers ways in which scholars of CI and APD can engage in mutually beneficial ways to produce better overall research. …”
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A Brief Yet Practical Guide to Reforming U.S. Voter Registration Systems by Shaw, Daron, Ansolabehere, Stephen, Stewart III, Charles H

“…A review of this system reveals that it is massive, decentralized, and vital to democratic functioning. The existing scholarly literature, coupled with our own reading of data from the 2012 elections, suggests several ways of improving the system, including adopting online registration for voters, using technology to improve lists and list management, working with private vendors to assess and improve the quality of registration lists, and developing a national list to facilitate analyses of administrative performance and best practices.…”
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Public Opinion in Subnational Politics by Caughey, Devin, Warshaw, Christopher

“…The advent of new data sources, however, as well as of new methods such as multilevel regression and poststratification, has greatly enhanced scholars’ capacity to describe public opinion in states, legislative districts, cities, and other subnational units. …”
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Measuring Constituent Policy Preferences in Congress, State Legislatures, and Cities by Tausanovitch, Chris, Warshaw, Christopher

“…These new estimates enable scholars to examine representation at a variety of geographic levels. …”
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An Equivalence Approach to Balance and Placebo Tests by Hartman, Erin, Hidalgo, Fernando Daniel

“…Recent emphasis on credible causal designs has led to the expectation that scholars justify their research designs by testing the plausibility of their causal identification assumptions, often through balance and placebo tests. …”
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Building biosecurity for synthetic biology by Trump, Benjamin D, Galaitsi, SE, Appleton, Evan, Bleijs, Diederik A, Florin, Marie-Valentine, Gollihar, Jimmy D, Hamilton, R Alexander, Kuiken, Todd, Lentzos, Filippa, Mampuys, Ruth, Merad, Myriam, Novossiolova, Tatyana, Oye, Kenneth, Perkins, Edward, Garcia-Reyero, Natàlia, Rhodes, Catherine, Linkov, Igor

“…Current biosecurity regulations and strategies are based on previous governance paradigms for pathogen-oriented security, recombinant DNA research, and broader concerns related to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Many scholarly discussions and biosecurity practitioners are therefore concerned that synthetic biology outpaces established biosafety and biosecurity measures to prevent deliberate and malicious or inadvertent and accidental misuse of synthetic biology's processes or products. …”
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How information about race-based health disparities affects policy preferences: Evidence from a survey experiment about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States by Harell, Allison, Lieberman, Evan S

“…The study contributes to a larger scholarly literature on the challenges of making and implementing social policy in racially-divided societies.…”
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COVID-19 and Fieldwork: Challenges and Solutions by Krause, Peter, Szekely, Ora, Bloom, Mia, Christia, Fotini, Daly, Sarah Zukerman, Lawson, Chappell, Marks, Zoe, Milliff, Aidan, Miura, Kacie, Nielsen, Richard, Reno, William, Souleimanov, Emil Aslan, Zakayo, Aliyu

“…Key themes include how contingency planning must now be a central part of our research designs; how cyberspace has increasingly become the field for the time being; and how scholars can build lasting, mutually beneficial partnerships with field citizens, now and in the future.…”
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Financing the Welfare State: Elite Politics and the Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America by Campbell, Andrea Louise, Morgan, Kimberly J.

“…<jats:p>While there is a vast and rich literature on the benefits and services provided by the welfare state, few scholars have investigated how these programs are financed. …”
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Dynamic Estimation of Latent Opinion Using a Hierarchical Group-Level IRT Model by Caughey, Devin, Warshaw, Christopher S

“…Until recently, however, polls rarely included enough questions in a given domain to apply scaling techniques such as IRT models at the individual level, preventing scholars from taking full advantage of historical survey data. …”
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Tipping the (Im)balance: Capital inflows, financial market structure, and banking crises by Copelovitch, Mark, Singer, David

“…An emerging consensus among scholars and policy‐makers identifies foreign capital inflows as one of the primary determinants of banking crises in developed countries. …”
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Representation in Municipal Government by Tausanovitch, Chris, Warshaw, Christopher

“…In the past, the unavailability of data on the policy preferences of citizens at the municipal level has limited scholars' ability to study the responsiveness of municipal government. …”
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Representation in Municipal Government by Tausanovitch, Chris, Warshaw, Christopher

“…In the past, the unavailability of data on the policy preferences of citizens at the municipal level has limited scholars’ ability to study the responsiveness of municipal government. …”
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Kidnapping Politics in East Asia by Samuels, Richard J.

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Soldiers, Pollsters, and International Crises: Public Opinion and the Military's Advice on the Use of Force by Lin-Greenberg, Erik

“…Abstract When advising civilian leaders on the use of force, are nonelected officials swayed by public opinion? Scholars have long debated whether public preferences affect foreign policy, but most studies focus on elected politicians, overlooking the nonelected officials who formulate policies and advise leaders. …”
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