Readings

Week 1

John Patty & Maggie Penn

Patty, John W. and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. Analyzing Big Data: Social Choice and Measurement

Gailmard, Sean, John W. Patty, and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. Manipulation and Single-Peakedness: A General Result

Patty, John W and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. Measuring Fairness, Inequality, and Big Data: Social Choice Since Arrow

Chouldechova, Alexandra. Fair prediction with disparate impact: A study of bias in recidivism prediction instruments

Patty, John W. and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. Algorithms, Incentives, and Democracy

Patty, John W and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. Algorithmic Fairness and Statistical Discrimination

Patty, John W. and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. Ban the Box? Information, Incentives,and Statistical Discrimination

Coate, Stephen and Glenn C. Loury.Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?

Monika Nalepa

Gerring “Case Study Research” CUP 2017, chapters 3,5 and 6.

Nalepa and Piotrowska “Clean sweep or picking out the bad apples,” unpublished manuscript University of Chicago

Pre-analysis plan “Relative effects of politicization and competence on trust in the police” OSF

Recommended: Gibbons, R. Applied Game Theory Ch. 4

Kris Ramsay

Canen and Ramsay. Quantifying Theory in Politics: Identification, Interpretation and the Role of Structural Methods.

Gibilisco, M. 2023. Mowing the Grass.

Week 2

Scott Tyson & Tara Slough

Bueno de Mesquita, Ethan and Scott A. Tyson "The Commensurability Problem: Conceptual Difficulties in Estimating the Effect of Behavior on Behavior"

Slough, Tara and Scott A. Tyson "External Validity and Meta-Analysis."

Slough, Tara and Scott A. Tyson "Replication, Sign-Congruence and External Validity" link

Slough, Tara and Scott A. Tyson External Validity and Evidence Accumulation pre-print

Slough, Tara. "Phantom Counterfactuals"

Week 3

Kai Ou

[1] Feddersen, T.J. and Pesendorfer, W., 1996. The swing voter's curse. American Economic Review, pp.408-424.

[2] Battaglini, M., Morton, R.B. and Palfrey, T.R., 2010. The swing voter's curse in the laboratory. Review of Economic Studies, 77(1), pp.61-89.

[3] Baron, D.P. and Ferejohn, J.A., 1989. Bargaining in legislatures. American Political Science Review, 83(4), pp.1181-1206.

[4] Frechette, G.R., Kagel, J.H. and Lehrer, S.F., 2003. Bargaining in legislatures: An experimental investigation of open versus closed amendment rules. American Political Science Review, 97(2), pp.221-232.

[5] Battaglini, M., Lai, E.K., Lim, W. and Wang, J.T.Y., 2019. The informational theory of legislative committees: An experimental analysis. American Political Science Review, 113(1), pp.55-76.

[6] Großer, J. and Palfrey, T.R., 2014. Candidate entry and political polarization: An antimedian voter theorem. American Journal of Political Science, 58(1), pp.127-143.

[7] Großer, J. and Palfrey, T.R., 2019. Candidate entry and political polarization: An experimental study. American Political Science Review, 113(1), pp.209-225.

[8] Woon, J., 2018. Primaries and candidate polarization: behavioral theory and experimental evidence. American Political Science Review, 112(4), pp.826-843.

[9] Ou, K., 2024. Race to the Top: How Competition for Political Power Affects Participation. The Journal of Politics, 86(1), pp.305-320.

[10] Morton, R. and Williams, K., 2010. Formal theory and causality. From Nature to the Lab: The Methodology of Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality, pp.196-250.

[11] Palfrey, T.R., 2016. Experiments in political economy. The Handbook of Experimental Economics, 2, pp.347-434.

David Siegel

Treier and Hillygus, 2009, Public Opinion Quarterly, "THE NATURE OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ELECTORATE"
Feldman and Johnston, 2013, Political Psychology, "Understanding the Determinants of Political Ideology: Implications of Structural Complexity"
Morucci et al, forthcoming, American Political Science Review, "Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in IRT Models" (with R package)