Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to...

Cross-national parliamentary data have increasingly enabled scholars to study the behavior of individual Members of Parliament (MPs), allowing insights into issues such as (re)selection, intra-party dissent, and representation. Yet data on MPs' activity have largely been limited to speeches,...

Rogowski et al. (2022) use secondary data to study the impact of historic postal infrastructure on economic development, both cross-country and within the US. Their results suggest a large positive effect of post offices on economic development that is robust across various sensitivity checks....

This paper traces the evolution of the concept of equilibrium in political science from the 1920s to the 1990s, arguing that despite apparent methodological ruptures-from behavioralism to rational choice theory-the search for equilibrium represents a consistent theoretical pursuit within the...

Purpose This paper aims to contend that populism is damaging to both domestic and international politics; not only does it erode liberal democracy in established democracies but also fuels authoritarianism in despotic regimes and aggravates conflicts and crises in international system....

We computationally reproduce the central findings in Mehmood (2022), which studied the effect of a 2010 reform in Pakistan replacing the presidential appointment of high-court judges with peer appointments. Mehmood leveraged judicial records interpreted and coded by lawyers in Pakistan at the...

We reproduce Shoub, Kelsey, Katelyn E. Stauffer, and Miyeon Song (May 2021). "Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops," with alternative specifications and interpretation of the results. While our reproduction confirms that female police officers are less likely to...

Die Sozialpolitik in Deutschland steht angesichts multipler und miteinander verflochtener Krisen vor einer Vielzahl neuer und alter Herausforderungen. Wissenschaftliche Befunde können helfen, diese Herausforderungen zu bewältigen. Damit dies gelingt, muss Sozialpolitikforschung jedoch der...

Conflicts are not usually associated with social integration, but rather with threats to it. They appear as a cause of social distance, alienation and division. However, the sociology of conflict maintains that conflicts are as much a source of social integration and cohesion as they are of...

We develop a novel measure of political slant in research to examine whether political ideology influences the content and use of academic research. Our measure examines the frequency of citations from think tanks with different political ideologies and allows us to examine both the supply and...

The scientific method is predicated on transparency - yet the pace at which transparent research practices are being adopted by the scientific community is slow. The replication crisis in psychology showed that published findings employing statistical inference are threatened by undetected...

Klappentext: Wie steht es um den Staat im "digitalen Zeitalter"? Die Transformation des Staates in der Leistungsdimension und der Staatlichkeit in der Steuerungsdimension ist eher die Regel als eine Ausnahme. Für die 1990er-Jahren wurde sie mit dem Modellwechsel vom "intervenierenden...

"In this accessible appraisal of contemporary globalization, Steger draws on global theory and history to engage pressing issues such as digitization, ideological polarization, education, demographics, development, and the environment. This big-picture view supports the practical efforts of...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Schmitt and Dictatorship -- Chapter 3. Schmitt and Sovereignty -- Chapter 4. 'Die Diktatur des Reichspräsidenten' -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Decisionism, Authority, Sovereignty, and the 'State of Exception'.

The introductory contribution to this special issue on “Political Theory of the Digital Constellation” addresses the conditions and possibilities of political theory’s engagement with digital developments. The motivation for this inquiry is the growing interest in questions of political...

Der Beitrag geht dem Verhältnis von Zielen und Collective Agency im politischen Handeln nach. Dabei wird die These entwickelt, dass das unmittelbare Erfahren und Gestalten von gemeinsamen Handlungsverhältnissen die Zielorientierung in der Politik nicht ersetzen kann, sondern als eine wichtige...

One striking observation in the history of rational choice models is that those models have not only been used in economics but spread widely across the social and behavioral sciences. How do such model transfers proceed? By closely studying the early efforts to transfer such models by William...

In this editorial statement, we present a balance of the first decade of life of the European Journal of Government and Economics. We discuss the main difficulties an independent journal faces in maintaining the policy of open access and publication free of charge. We also renew the commitment...

The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles. Using generous assumptions, we find that the median analysis has...

The paper aims to show how the formal revolution in economics has influenced the developments of Rational Choice and Game Theory in Political Science. Our focus will be on American political scientist William H. Riker (1920-1993). We want to show how Riker used game theory and adapted it to...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Hayek and Chinese Liberalism -- Chapter 2: The Road to Serfdom and Cold War Liberalism in Taiwan and Mainland China -- Chapter 3: “China’s Hayek” and the Liberal Lessons in Gu Zhun’s Thought under Totalitarian Rule -- Chapter 4: True Individualism, Dispersed...

We survey and summarize recent literature on labor unions in political economy. While labor unions have been a long-standing subject of study in labor and macroeconomics, until recently they have been less studied by political economists, despite being important political actors in many...

Die Sozialpolitik in Deutschland steht angesichts multipler und miteinander verflochtener Krisen vor einer Vielzahl neuer und alter Herausforderungen. Wissenschaftliche Befunde können helfen, diese Herausforderungen zu bewältigen. Damit dies gelingt, muss Sozialpolitikforschung jedoch der...

"Karl Polanyi is one of the most influential social scientists of our era. A report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) begins by noting that we are in a "Polanyi era": a time of dangerously unregulated markets, where the greatest need for decisive political action...

Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Liliana Doganova’s book sheds new light on this anxious query. It argues that our relationship to the future has been trapped in the gears of a device called discounting. While...

Welche Bedeutung hatte die Zivilgesellschaft für die Entwicklung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland? Wie hat sie sich gewandelt und vor welchen Herausforderungen steht sie? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis nehmen zivilgesellschaftliche Schlüsselakteure wie...

Das weltweit gestiegene Interesse an Leben und Werk Hannah Arendts hat in den letzten zehn Jahren eine unüberschaubare Menge an neuer Literatur hervorgebracht. Der Literaturbericht konzentriert sich zum einen auf Schriften Arendts, die erstmals zugänglich gemacht wurden. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt...

Die Frage, ob und wie sich Demokratie durch internationale Unterstützung fördern und schützen lässt, hat jüngst an Relevanz gewonnen. Zum einen hat der Abzug der NATO-Truppen aus Afghanistan eine öffentliche Debatte über die Grenzen von Demokratieförderung neu entfacht. Zum anderen...

This Article distills three paradigms through which to view legal exceptions in international trade agreements. Under the Policy Space Paradigm, governments have the right to violate international obligations so long as the violation is necessary to pursue a public policy goal permitted by an...

This Working Paper analyses the results of a novel survey carried out to examine and measure how Brazilian scholars of economics and political science-including public administration-tend to agree or disagree on main public choice issues. The conceptual framework identifies 34 issues across 7...

The paper analyzes the process of formation and development of two academic disciplines: political science and international relations. It shows that although the focus of international relations is primarily political relations, these two disciplines have developed in parallel. The peculiarity...

Social networks play an important role in many political science studies. With the rise of social media, these networks have grown in both size and complexity. Analysis of these large networks requires generation of feature representations that can be used in machine learning models. One way to...