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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Illusion of Learning from Observational Research -- 2. A Defense of Observational Research -- 3. A Retreat from Radical Skepticism: Rebalancing Theory, Observational Data, and Randomization in Development Economics -- 4. The Experimental Approach to Development Economics -- 5. Reflections on the Ethics of Field Experiments -- 6. Instruments, Randomization, and Learning About Development -- 7. Experimental Reasoning in Social Science -- 8. Misunderstandings Between Experimentalists and Observationalists About Causal Inference -- 9. Methods Are Like People: If You Focus Only on What They Can't Do, You Will Always Be Disappointed -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- B -- C -- E -- G -- H -- I -- N -- O -- R -- S -- T.

The right to vote is a keystone of democracy, but many groups, including those that were long excluded from the ballot, fail to exercise their rights in large numbers. In the United States, cutting edge research has argued that the first women to cast ballots were "peripheral" voters: their decisions to participate were even more sensitive to electoral competition than were men's, producing larger gender gaps in turnout in less competitive districts. This paper argues that the portability of the peripheral voting thesis depends on the electoral institutions when suffrage was granted. Using the example of Norway, which transitioned from majoritarian rules to proportional representation just a few years after women won the vote, I show that proportional representation, which increases competition on average, produces a dramatic fall in the gender turnout gap, particularly in previously uncompetitive districts. These findings suggest that electoral systems, more than gender, made women peripheral voters

Were women agents of their own political emancipation or did politicians preemptively grant rights to them in a bid for electoral success? This article claims that both electoral politics and the ordinary strategies of women's movements explain the timing of female suffrage. Drawing on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, I show how in an electoral environment where the incumbent Liberals saw disadvantage to reform, an enterprising group of Liberal suffragists formed a pact with the Labour party, trading economic resources for the party's promise to push for suffrage reform. The Election Fighting Fund, as the pact was called, was key to securing women's place in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. In raising the possibility that ordinary instead of revolutionary tactics proved key to voting rights reform, women emerge as an interesting new case for the study of democratization.

ABSTRACT
This article explores publication patterns across 10 prominent political science journals, documenting a significant gender gap in publication rates for men and women. We present three broad findings. First, we find no evidence that the low percentage of female authors simply mirrors an overall low share of women in the profession. Instead, we find continued underrepresentation of women in many of the discipline's top journals. Second, we find that women are not benefiting equally in a broad trend across the discipline toward coauthorship. Most published collaborative research in these journals emerges from all-male teams. Third, it appears that the methodological proclivities of the top journals do not fully reflect the kind of work that female scholars are more likely than men to publish in these journals. The underrepresentation of qualitative work in many journals is associated as well with an underrepresentation of female authors.