Tag Archives: Research Methods

The Transparency Revolution Political science (and the social sciences in general) are in the midst of significant changes in how research is conducted and reported. I refer to these reforms as the “transparency revolution,” which has emphasized the importance of ensuring the accuracy and plausibility of published research findings. One ...

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 ...