Religious Regulation in Brazil
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
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In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Religious Regulation in Brazil" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: The Political Methodologist, 22(2):4-8, 2015
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 77, Heft 1, S. 175-187
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 77, Heft 1, S. 175-187
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: British journal of political science, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1469-2112
Abstract
Courts prosecuting corruption serve a critical horizontal accountability function, but they can also play a role in moments of vertical accountability when voters can sanction corrupt candidates. This article documents the strategic use of corruption lawsuits, demonstrating the presence of an electoral cycle in filing new corruption accusations against politicians. Using an original dataset of daily corruption complaints filed in federal courts against members of Argentina's main political coalitions between 2013 and 2021, we document increased corruption accusations against and by politicians in the periods immediately preceding an election. A second dataset of daily media coverage of corruption accusations in two leading newspapers suggests that corruption is more salient before elections, offering politicians a temporal focal point to prepare and launch especially impactful lawsuits. Our findings shed new light on using courts for accountability and debates about the so-called 'lawfare' in Latin America.
In: American journal of political science
ISSN: 1540-5907
AbstractPlacebo tests are increasingly common in applied social science research, but the methodological literature has not previously offered a comprehensive account of what we learn from them. We define placebo tests as tools for assessing the plausibility of the assumptions underlying a research design relative to some departure from those assumptions. We offer a typology of tests defined by the aspect of the research design that is altered to produce it (outcome, treatment, or population) and the type of assumption that is tested (bias assumptions or distributional assumptions). Our formal framework clarifies the extra assumptions necessary for informative placebo tests; these assumptions can be strong, and in some cases similar assumptions would justify a different procedure allowing the researcher to relax the research design's assumptions rather than test them. Properly designed and interpreted, placebo tests can be an important device for assessing the credibility of empirical research designs.
In: Electoral studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy, Band 75, S. 102418
ISSN: 1873-6890
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Working paper
In: Journal of public economics, Band 235, S. 105138
ISSN: 1879-2316