methodology
Some commentators have suggested posts that pose questions to our readers. I think that the discussion on Peter Henne's piece, "A Modest Defense of Terrorism Studies,"
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I spent last week doing "field research" - that is, participant-observation in one of the several communities of practice whose work I'm following as part
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This is a guest post from Tanisha Fazal, a professor of political science at Columbia University, and Jessica Martini, a human rights and international trade
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A standard critical argument in my field looks something like this:1. Phenomenon X involves A assumptions about the world;2. Approach Y contains assumptions inconsistent with A; therefore3. Y
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The Institute for Economics and Peace is making a big splash today with the release of the 2012 edition of its annual Global Peace Index
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NOTE: The following was actually written before Dan Nexon posted a good piece on exactly the same essay. I’m not sure if that coincidence means
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Kindred Winecoff has a pretty sweet rebuttal to my ill-tempered rant of late March. A lot of it makes sense, and I appreciate reading graduate
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In the Matrix, it's trivial to specify the underlyingdata-generating process. It involves kung fu. Given PTJ's post, I wanted to clarify two points from my original
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Technically, "because I didn't have observational data."Working with experimental data requires onlycalculating means and reading a table. Also, thismay be the most condescending comic stripabout statistics
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I am going to try writing down pieces of advice that I give to students all the time, in the hopes that they might be
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In a new paper, Michael Spagat and a number of collaborators explore the determinants of intentional civilian killing in war. Using sophisticated regression analysis they
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I am going to try writing down pieces of advice that I give to students all the time, in the hopes that they might be
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George Gallup - what have you started?
The traditional methods for a state to know what overseas publics are thinking are changing. Instead of relying
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The Monkey Cage has published a detailed guest post by Christine Fair on the drone casualty debate. Fair takes leading drone-casualty-counters (Bergen and Tiedeman's New
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I am going to try writing down pieces of advice that I give to students all the time, in the hopes that they might be
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I had every intention this evening of writing a cynical commentary on all the hoopla surrounding Open Government, Open Data and the Great Transparency Revolution.
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I have been doing a lot of work with survey data lately, as well as some reading in critical theory. Maybe that inspired my deconstruction
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