Christenson PS 585: TECHNIQUES IN POLITICAL ANALYSIS Important political science articles that use elementary statistics* Ansolabehere, Stephen, Shanto Iyengar, Adam Simon, and Nicholas Valentino. "Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate?" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 4. (Dec., 1994), pp. 829‐
838. Beck, Paul Allen. 1996. Party Politics in America. Eighth edition. New York: Longman. (On page 56, Beck charts declining standard deviations among states for each presidential election from 1896 through 1992 to demonstrate the decline of interstate differences and the nationalization of politics.) Berry, William D. and Mitchell S. Sanders. 2000. Understanding Multivariate Research: A Primer for Beginning Social Scientists. Westview Press. 2000. Bledsoe, Timothy, Susan Welch, Lee Sigelman and Michael Combs. 1995. "Residential Context and Racial Solidarity Among African Americans". American Journal of Political Science 39: 434‐458. Burns, Nancy, Kay Lehman Schlozman and Sidney Verba. 1997. "The Public Consequences of Private Inequality." The American Political Science Review, Vol. 91, No. 2. (Jun., 1997), pp. 373‐389. Camobreco, John F. and Michelle A. Barnello, "Postmaterialism and Post‐Industrialization: Cultural Influences on Female Representation in State Legislatures," State Politics and Policy Quarterly 3 (Summer 2003): 117‐138. Cassel, Carol A. 2002. Hispanic Turnout: Estimates from Validated Voting Data." Political Research Quarterly 55: 391‐408. Crook, Sara Brandes and John R. Hibbing. "Congressional Reform and Party Discipline: The Effects of Changes in the Seniority System on Party Loyalty in the US House of Representatives." British Journal of Political Science. 15 (1985). pp. 207‐226. de la Garza, Rodolfo O., Angelo Falcon, and F. Chris Garcia. "Will the Real Americans Please Stand Up: Anglo and Mexican‐American Support of Core American Political Values." American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 40, No. 2. (May, 1996), pp. 335‐351. Fair, Ray C. 2002. Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (2) Fair, Ray C. 1996. "Econometrics and Presidential Elections." The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 3. (Summer, 1996), pp. 89‐102. *
This list was compiled by Adam J Berinsky via suggestions from the Polmeth listserv. 1 Christenson PS 585: TECHNIQUES IN POLITICAL ANALYSIS Franklin, Mark N. "Electoral Engineering and Cross‐National Turnout Differences: What Role for Compulsory Voting?" British Journal of Political Science 29: 205‐16. Freedman, Paul and Ken Goldstein. 1999. "Measuring Media Exposure and the Effects of Negative Campaign Ads." 1999. American Journal of Political Science 43: 1189‐1208. Gabel, Matthew. 1998. "Public Support for European Integration: An Empirical Test of Five Theories," Journal of Politics 60(2): 333‐354. Gerber, Alan S. and Donald P. Green. 2001. "Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout?: A Field Experiment." Public Opinion Quarterly 65: 75‐85. Green, Donald and Ann Gerken. "Self‐Interest and Public Opinion Toward Smoking." Public Opinion Quarterly 53:1‐16. 1989. Hibbing, John, and John Alford. 1982. "Economic Conditions and the Forgotten Side of Congress" British Journal of Political Science 12(4):505‐516. Highton, Benjamin. 1997. "Easy Registration and Voter Turnout." The Journal of Politics 59: 565‐575. Jackman, Robert W. 1980. "The impact of outliers on income inequality." American Sociological Review 45(2): 344‐347. Jackman, Robert W. 1987. "Political Institutions and Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies." The American Political Science Review, Vol. 81, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 405‐424. (2) Jacobson, Gary. 1999. "The Effect of the AFL‐CIO's 'Voter Education' Campaigns on the 1996 House Elections." Journal of Politics 61(1):185‐194. Kahn, Kim Fridkin and Patrick J. Kenney. 1999. "Do Negative Campaigns Mobilize or Suppress Turnout? Clarifying the Relationship between Negativity and Participation." American Political Science Review 93: 877‐889. Karp, Jeffrey A. and Susan A. Banducci. 2000. "Going postal: How all‐mail elections influence turnout." Political Behavior 22(3): 223‐239. Knack, Stephen. 1995. "Does 'Motor Voter' work? Evidence from state‐level data." Journal of Politics 57(3): 796‐811. Lewis‐Beck, Michael, and Tom Rice. 1982. "Presidential Popularity and Presidential Vote." Public Opinion Quarterly 46(4):534‐537. 2 Christenson PS 585: TECHNIQUES IN POLITICAL ANALYSIS Lewis‐Beck, Michael, and Tom Rice. 1983. "Localism in Presidential Elections: Home State Advantage." American Journal of Political Science 27(3):548‐556. Lijphart, Arend. 1997. "Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma." American Political Science Review 91: 1‐14. Plutzer, Eric. "Work Life, Family Life, and Women's Support of Feminism." American Sociological Review, Vol. 53, No. 4. (Aug., 1988), pp. 640‐649. Poe, Steven C. and C. Neal Tate. 1994. "Repression of Human Rights to Personal Integrity in the 1980s: A Global Analysis." American Political Science Review. 88:853‐900. (this one has replication data available at http://www.psci.unt.edu/ihrsc/poetate.htm) Pollock, Philip H. 2005. The Essentials of Political Analysis, 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. Rochefort, David A., ed. 2005. Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS. Washington, DC: CQ Press. (compilation of articles) Salamon, Lester M. and Stephen Van Evera. "Fear, Apathy, and Discrimination: A Test of Three Explanations of Political Participation." American Political Science Review 67 (December 1973). pp. 1288‐1306. Segal, Jeffrey A. and Albert D. Cover. 1989. "Ideological Values and the Votes of United States Supreme Court Justices. American Political Science Review 83 (2, June): 557‐565. Tufte, Edward. 1973. "The Relationship between Seats and Votes in Two‐Party Systems." American Political Science Review 67(2):540‐54 3