One of the major developments in political science in the past decade has been the rise of
experiments and surveys on political elites. Yet, the increase in the number of elite studies …

This article reviews the burgeoning literature on democratic authoritarianism, which
examines two related but distinct questions: why authoritarian regimes adopt institutions …

In principle, experiments offer a straightforward method for social scientists to accurately
estimate causal effects. However, scholars often unwittingly distort treatment effect estimates …

Multiplicative interaction models are widely used in social science to examine whether the
relationship between an outcome and an independent variable changes with a moderating …

Retrospective voting models assume that offering more information to voters about their
incumbents' performance strengthens electoral accountability. However, it is unclear …

Within days of the Singapore parliamentary election in May 2011, Lee Kuan Yew and Goh
Chok Tong announced that they had decided to leave the nation's cabinet, where they had …

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world From social
media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers …

Does external monitoring improve democratic performance? Fact‐checking has come to
play an increasingly important role in political coverage in the United States, but some …

The increased focus on marketizing mechanisms and contracting‐out operations following
the New Public Management reform agenda has sparked a debate on whether the close …

Are there returns to office in an authoritarian parliament? A new dataset shows that over 500
deputies to China's National People's Congress are CEOs of various companies. Entropy …