Tag Archives: political science

In preparation for a graduate seminar on political science publishing, I had the pleasure of re-reading Gary King’s very useful “Publication, Publication,” published in PS: Political Science and Politics in 2006. Readers will know that I have lately criticized King’s vision of political science, as it applies to “big data” ...

Political science research has become increasingly transparent over the past few decades, with rising emphasis on procedures such as data sharing and replication projects. At this time, many journal editors have signed the public statement on Data Access & Research Transparency, in a wish to further this commitment to open ...

What’s up with DA-RT? What happened regarding DA-RT at the APSA meeting in San Francisco? Is it true, as one prominent editor has been quoted, that DA-RT is a fait accompli, and that “the train has already left the station?” In recent weeks I have been repeatedly asked these questions. ...

Matthew Flinders is a terrific writer. While we’ve never met, I have greatly enjoyed his book Defending Politics, and was very pleased to have been invited by him to participate in a symposium that he organized on the relevance of political science that was published in May 2013 issue of ...

Observational political science overwhelmingly involves phenomena that occur and change over time. Temporal dependencies abound both between and within many social processes. Of course, failing to account for temporal dependencies in dynamic data violates the classical regression assumptions. Yet unfortunately some analysts seem to view the dynamic processes in their ...

The editors here at The Plot are extraordinarily pleased to be writing you from Vienna, Austria (at the imposing former imperial palace of Schloss Schönbrunn, no less), where some of the world’s finest political scientists have converged this week for the Fifth Annual EPSA General Conference.