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Who Controls the Content of Supreme Court Opinions?
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2012-04)
Conventional arguments identify either the median justice or the opinion author as the most influential justices in shaping the content of Supreme Court opinions. We develop a model of judicial decision making that suggests ...
Integrating Big Data and Thick Data to Transform Public Services Delivery
(2019-03-21)
Big data holds great promise for improving public services delivery and innovation in government, but they are not a panacea. Having lots of data can be overwhelming or have little utility if the data are “thin”—that is, ...
MCMCpack: Markov chain Monte Carlo in R
(Foundation for Open Access Statistics, 2011-06)
We introduce MCMCpack, an R package that contains functions to perform Bayesian
inference using posterior simulation for a number of statistical models. In addition to
code that can be used to fit commonly used models, ...
Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China’s Public Employment
(The China Quarterly, 2012-09-01)
Is China’s public bureaucracy overstaffed? To answer this basic question
objectively, one needs to define public employment in the contemporary
Chinese context; survey data sources available to measure public employment;
and ...
Learning Political Science with Prediction Markets: An Experimental Study
(Cambridge University Press, 2012-04)
Prediction markets are designed to aggregate the information of many individuals to forecast future events. These markets provide participants with an incentive to seek information and a forum for interaction, making markets ...
Is the Roberts Court Especially Activist? A Study of Invalidating (and Upholding) Federal, State, and Local Laws
(2012)
Is the Roberts Court especially activist or, depending on your preference, especially lacking in judicial self-restraint? If we define judicial self-restraint as a reluctance to declare legislative action unconstitutional ...
Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why "I-Paid-A-Bribe" Worked in India But Failed in China
(2014-10)
Authoritarian states restrain online activism not only through repression and censorship, but also by indirectly weakening the ability of netizens to self-govern and constructively engage the state. I demonstrate this ...