PS: Political Science & Politics articles from September 1995

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from September 1995

Community and individual stakes in the collection, analysis, and availability of data. (response to articles by Gary King and Paul S. Herrnson in this issue, p.444 and p.452, respectively)
September 1, 1995... Providing good answers to the questions raised in the discussion between Gary King and Paul Herrnson requires paying attention to the full range of interests affected. Unless we pay attention, individual political scientists, research groups,...

Evaluation standards for a slow-moving science. (response to article by Gary King in this issue, p.444)
September 1, 1995... Everything I have published, apart from some ghost-written school speeches for my children, I have written as a social scientist. Having persuaded myself that I had discovered something worth reporting, I have attempted to persuade others that...

On the inadequacy and inappropriateness of the replication standard. (response to article by Gary King in this issue, p.444)
September 1, 1995... Gary King has done a great service to the discipline in raising the question of how we meet appropriate standards for assuring that our published work advances the collective knowledge concerning government and politics that is in our mutual...

Data accessibility in political science: putting the principle into practice. (response to articles by Gary King and Paul S. Herrnson in this issue, p. 444 and p.452, respectively)
September 1, 1995... Like Gary King and Paul Herrnson, we believe that making our data accessible can strengthen and advance scholarly knowledge. King and Herrnson, however, disagree about the measures necessary to ensure that data are widely available to achieve...

Cautious reflections on a data-archiving policy for political science. (response to article by Gary King in this issue, p. 444)
September 1, 1995... Gary King and the Methodology Organized Section of APSA have certainly done the profession an important service by point out some of the deficiencies of our current practices on archiving data sets. For 40 years now, political scientists have...

Engaging the periphery - more busywork for political scientists. (response to article by Gary King in this issue, p.444)
September 1, 1995... The Open Enterprise of Science From one standpoint, it is quite easy to concur with Gary King's exhortations on behalf of researchers making their data sets publicly available. His plea is, after all, consistent with a basic...

Replication as regulation. (replication of political science research)
September 1, 1995... Debate among political scientists over replication is comparable in many respects to controversy among policy analysts about the ends and means of regulation. Proponents of replication seek to provide the collective good of free-flowing...

Replication and non-quantitative research. (response to article by Gary King in this issue, p.444)
September 1, 1995... In "Replication, Replication," Gary King convincingly argues that publications by political scientists should adhere to what he calls a replication standard. Although King's article explicitly embraces qualitative as well as quantitative...

Our brother's keeper: authenticity, accountability, and the Social Science Quarterly project.
September 1, 1995... The Social Science Quarterly (SSQ) is the major interdisciplinary journal in the social sciences, typically receiving more than 400 manuscripts per year. We publish about 10% of these, so we are in the same ball park as the major disciplinary...

Coding style and good computing practices. (replicating research)
September 1, 1995... Replication of scholarly analysis depends on individual researchers being able to explain exactly what they have done. And being able to explain exactly what one has done requires keeping good records of it. This article describes basic good...

Response: potential research policies for political science.
September 1, 1995... As evidenced by the thoughtful symposium participants, political scientists have a variety of opinions about verification, replication, and data archiving. I continue to have strong reservations regarding the proposed replication,...

A revised proposal, proposal. (replication of political science research)
September 1, 1995... Receiving thoughtful comments in this symposium from 19 of the discipline's most innovative empirical researchers is gratifying and goes a long way toward bringing issues of replication and data accessibility into public view. The progress...

Computer modeling using spreadsheets and related software. (political science research)
September 1, 1995... Computer models hold a continuing fascination for political scientists. Part of their attraction derives from being working miniatures like mechanical toys. They also hold the less enjoyable but more scientific promise of allowing something...

What to gain from technical sophistication? (regression analysis in political science)
September 1, 1995... In a recent article in this journal, James McGregor (1993) criticizes political scientists for practicing regression analysis without recognizing the limitations in the regression technique. McGregor argues that the technique is inappropriate...

Walking between rain drops: teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
September 1, 1995... Once a year I teach a course entitled The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Recently I had as a guest speaker General Shlomo Gazit, the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence and former military Governor of the Occupied West Bank. That...

Skimming the surface or going deep? (teaching and learning methods in higher education)
September 1, 1995... Introduction Most college teachers probably would say that they want students to think for themselves. If so, we can progress by using the growing research into teaching and learning in higher education. Approaching teaching as a...

Define your terms! Dictionaries, medievals, and thinking about concepts. (creating a dictionary of political concepts)
September 1, 1995... A good grasp of concepts is essential in every area of political science, not just in political theory. In what follows, I describe one pedagogical strategy I use to help students learn to define the concepts they work with. This strategy...

Iron triangle simulation: a role-playing game for undergraduates in Congress, interest groups, and public policy classes.
September 1, 1995... During the winter semester of 1994, 130 students in three upper-division undergraduate classes at the University of Missouri participated in a role-playing simulation of public policy formation in the U.S. Congress. This semester-long...

The quote analysis: teaching political science students to read with focus.
September 1, 1995... How often have we questioned our students about a book or article they have read, only to find that they cannot state the main arguments or even say what they have found interesting? Our first assumption might be that they have not done the...

An assessment of articles published by women in 15 top political science journals.
September 1, 1995... More women populate political science classrooms and political science departments in colleges and universities across the country today than they did 10 years ago. (See Table 1) In fact, according to Sarkees and McGlen (1992), women now...

American national election studies on CD-ROM.
September 1, 1995... The study of voting, public opinion, and electoral participation in the United States has come to the desktop with the release of the American National Election Studies (ANES) CD-ROM. With this new product, researchers, teachers, and their...

Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society: seventy-five years of change and growth.
September 1, 1995... Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society, is 75 years old this year. Over the past few years the society has initiated a series of new programs and activities intended to recognize excellence in political science students,...

Report on the status of lesbians and gays in the political science profession.
September 1, 1995... Introduction Gay, lesbian, and bisexual visibility is such a recent phenomenon, and sexual diversity so little understood in the population at large, that the status of sexual minorities in the political science profession is difficult...