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Special Edition Articles with Replication Data

The Shape of and Solutions to the MTurk Quality CrisisRyan Kennedy, +5 more authors (2020) PSRM, more info.
R files: 1, Stata files: 4, images: 12, PDF files: 4, datasets: 40, text files: 1

A Text-As-Data Approach for Using Open-Ended Responses As Manipulation ChecksJeffrey Ziegler (2022) POLAN, more info.
R files: 3, other files: 1, PDF files: 17, images: 1, LaTeX files: 9, text files: 1

Recruiting Large Online Samples in the United States and India: Facebook, Mechanical Turk and QualtricsTaylor Boas, +2 more authors (2020) PSRM, more info.
R files: 16, text files: 9, datasets: 14, PDF files: 6, LaTeX files: 1, HTML files: 2

Paying Attention to Inattentive Survey RespondentsR. Michael Alvarez, +3 more authors (2019) POLAN, more info.
R files: 2, datasets: 2, text files: 1

Racing the Clock: Using Response Time As a Proxy for Attentiveness on Self-Administered SurveysBlair Read, +2 more authors (2022) POLAN, more info.
archives: 1

Crowdsourcing Reliable Local DataMirya Holman, +2 more authors (2020) POLAN, more info.
archives: 1

Using Screeners to Measure Respondent Attention on Self-Administered Surveys: Which Items and How Many?*Christopher Warshaw, +3 more authors (2021) PSRM, more info.
R files: 3, Stata files: 1, text files: 1, datasets: 1

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The Effort Report: .Professors Elizabeth Matsui and Roger Peng talk about life in the academic trenches, telling it like it is.

Tracking Florida's Death Penalty: .Updated information and critical analysis of capital punishment in Florida.

Australian Journal of Political Science: .Official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association.

International Studies Quarterly: .Publishes leading scholarship that engages with significant theoretical, empirical, and normative subjects in international studies.

Journal of Policy History: .Interdisciplinary journal concerned with the application of historical perspectives to public policy studies.

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Data Sites

Migration Data Portal: .A unique access point to timely, comprehensive migration statistics and reliable information about migration data globally.

New Nation Votes, A: .Searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.

German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies: .A research and network initiative focusing solely on the theory and practice of de-radicalization and counter-radicalization.

Global Indicators Database: .Compilation of Pew Research's public opinion surveys from around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's lives to views about the current state of the world.

Constituency-Level Elections Archive: .A repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world

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Authors with Datasets

Juhl, Sebastian .

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Gartzke, Erik .Univ. California at San Diego, see datasets

Olds, Christopher .University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, see dataverse.

Lucardi, Adrian .

Keele, Luke .University of Pennsylvania, see dataverse page

Blair, Graeme .UCLA

Tucker, Joshua .NYU

Coppock, Alexander .

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