Political Science

A recent wave of research in political science examines the past using statistical methods for causal inference and formal theory—a field widely known as historical polit [...]

This dataset includes a codebook, replication data and code for recreating figures and calculating frequencies presented in the manuscript.

How are LGBTQ+ issues represented within labor organizing and how are they linked to broader debates about inequality? We answered these questions by examining press rele [...]

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The troubled state of economic life today has prompted a revival of normative critiques of capitalism. According to a prominent critique, radical republicanism, capitalis [...]

In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less [...]

Utilizing both quantitative data, and qualitative data from in-depth qualitative interviews, this Master's thesis examines how living through and observing the experience [...]

Replication Data for: "Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century," published in PNAS.

Why has contemporary political theory been silent on money? The answer Stefan Eich provides in his brilliant book The Currency of Politics begins with John Rawls. Rawls’s [...]

Among the most pressing problems societies face today are economic inequality and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions. In fact the two problems—inequality an [...]

Kevin Munger argues that, when an agnostic approach is applied to social scientific inquiry, the goal of prediction to new settings is generically impossible. We aim to s [...]

After fifteen years of harrowing violence, none of the perpetrators of the Lebanese civil war have been criminally charged for human rights violations. Instead, the leade [...]

Is the public backlash against human rights rulings from European courts driven by substantive concerns over case outcomes, procedural concerns over sovereignty, or combi [...]

In 1629, Hobbes published his first work in his own name, a translation of Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War. Along with the translation, Hobbes wrote three pieces [...]

Data and code necessary to replicate the results of the article "Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis" and its supplementary mat [...]

How do racial stereotypes affect perceptions in foreign policy? Race and racism as topics have long been marginalized in the study of international relations but are rece [...]

Do American presidents speak discernibly different from each other? If so, in what ways? And are these differences confined to any single medium of communication? To inve [...]

The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries", by Heldring, Robinson, and Vollmer. [...]

We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, [...]

The zip file contains the Matlab files that generate figures for "Weak, Despotic, or Inclusive? How State Type Emerges from State vs. Civil Society Competition" [...]

We present a model of technologically interconnected countries that benefit and potentially contribute to advances in the world technology frontier. Greater inequality b [...]

We provide evidence that democracy has a positive effect on GDP per capita. Our dynamic panel strategy controls for country fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, w [...]

This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from nonstate actors. We find [...]

We provide a potential explanation, based on the “political agenda effect”, for the absence of, and unwillingness to create, centralized power in the hands of a natio [...]

Existing theories of democratic reversals emphasize that elites mount actions like coups when democracy is particularly threatening to their interests. However, existing [...]