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Corrections and Refinements to the Database of Political Institutions’ yrcurnt Election Timing Variable

Posted on March 3, 2015 by

The yrcurnt variable in the Database of Political Institutions (Beck et al. 2001, updated in 2013)1–DPI–is a regularly used measure of government election timing. For example, Alt, Lassen, and Wehner (2014) use the variable in their recent study of fiscal … Continue reading →

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Methods Syllabus Request (Data Collection Project)

Posted on October 21, 2013 by

We forward on this request from faculty members at WVU: We are collecting syllabi from political scientists who teach undergraduate methods courses for a content analysis project. If you teach an undergraduate political science methods course, would you consider forwarding … Continue reading →

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