Confounding Control
In: Using Technology, Building Democracy, S. 128-151
In: Using Technology, Building Democracy, S. 128-151
Despite longstanding efforts of leading scholars to standardize usage of the term "democracy" in scholarly practice on the basis of precise operational definitions, David Collier and Steven Levitsky found a proliferation of subtypes, a phenomenon they refer to as "democracy with adjectives." Efforts to define democracy in terms of a "procedural minimum" or those conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a democracy have not produced the intended uniformity of usage and high degrees of intercoder reliability, but rather led to the identification of hundreds of subtypes, of which "authoritarian democracy," "neopatrimonial democracy," "military-dominated democracy," and "protodemocracy," are a few. As they see it, scholars confront a dilemma. On the one hand, there is an impulse to maximize analytic differentiation in order to capture the wide variety of democracies that have emerged across the globe. On the other, there is a necessary concern for conceptual validity and to avoid what Giovanni Sartori referred to as "conceptual stretching."
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In: The world today, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 10-12
ISSN: 0043-9134
World Affairs Online
In: Middle East international: MEI, Heft 394, S. 15
ISSN: 0047-7249
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 68, Heft 401, S. 20-23
ISSN: 0011-3530
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In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 68, Heft 401, S. 20-23
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: American journal of political science, Band 64, Heft 4, S. 887-903
ISSN: 1540-5907
AbstractWe identify situations in which conditioning on text can address confounding in observational studies. We argue that a matching approach is particularly well‐suited to this task, but existing matching methods are ill‐equipped to handle high‐dimensional text data. Our proposed solution is to estimate a low‐dimensional summary of the text and condition on this summary via matching. We propose a method of text matching, topical inverse regression matching, that allows the analyst to match both on the topical content of confounding documents and the probability that each of these documents is treated. We validate our approach and illustrate the importance of conditioning on text to address confounding with two applications: the effect of perceptions of author gender on citation counts in the international relations literature and the effects of censorship on Chinese social media users.
In: Asian survey, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 157-164
ISSN: 1533-838X
Overall, 2011 was a year of significant change in Myanmar. By year-end, there was hope that political and economic reforms—incomplete and fragile—were at last underway. Myanmar continued to be an important regional exporter of energy and resources, but in other areas underperformed. Myanmar's international relations improved, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited at the end of November.
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 157-164
ISSN: 0004-4687
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In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 106, Heft 701, S. 288-295
ISSN: 0011-3530
World Affairs Online
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 106, Heft 701, S. 288-295
ISSN: 1944-785X
The government wants to control religion and harness its philanthropic energies to create social stability—until such time as religion can be completely strangled.
This edited collection draws on a range of disciplines in exploring the central place of narrative in social inquiry and understanding the ethical life. It provides scholarly and practical insights into the rewards and potential pitfalls of working in, and Other narrative. It offers readers a broad range of carefully considered examples; the use of art in enhancing insight into the plights of rural communities in Australia; the use of illness narratives in medical education; applying narrativ
In: Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Band 16, S. 25-48
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In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 39, Heft 153-156, S. 50-54
ISSN: 1474-029X
Part I. Explaining postcolonial failure: Why has Jamaica trailed Barbados on the path to sustained growth? -- The role of institutions, colonialism, and cultural appropriation -- Why Is democratic Jamaica so violent? -- Revisiting the "democratic peace" thesis -- Were female workers preferred in Jamaica's early economic development? -- Employment, urbanization, and gender among the postcolonial proletariat -- Part II. Three Cultural Puzzles: Why are Jamaicans the fastest runners in the world? -- The institutionalization of athletic prowess -- Why did postcolonial Jamaicans riot at a cricket match against Britain? -- The ritual of cricket in West Indian societies -- Why does globalization not produce cultural homogenization? -- The example of Jamaican reggae music -- Part III. The failures of policy and politicians: why do policies to help the urban poor so often fail? -- A Jamaican case study -- Sad about Manley -- Portrait of a flawed charisma