Some Political Science Published Works that Use Simple Statistical
Procedures
Here are a few published works which actually use the tools
that students in a beginning stat course are learning about (basic
probability distributions, confidence intervals around a population
mean, difference of means [or proportions], ANOVA, crosstabs, simple
correlations, simple linear regression) without moving on to
multiple regression, MLE procedures, or beyond. Some involve
experiments, because the crucial test is often a simple difference of
means between the experimental and control groups. But there are several
others involving judicial assignments and ideology, public policy,
political psychology, comparative politics, and international relations.
Atkins, Burton M. and William Zavoina. 1974.
"Judicial Leadership on Court of Appeals - Probability Analysis of
Panel Assignment in Race Relations Cases on Fifth Circuit." American
Journal of Political Science 18 (4, November): 701-711 (Probability
Calculations and Chi-square Tests.)
Beck, Paul Allen. 1996. Party Politics in America. Eighth
edition. New York :Longman. (On page 56, Beck charts
declining standard deviations among states for each presidential
election from 1896 through 1992 to demonstrate the decline of interstate
differences and the nationalization of politics.)
Bennett, Stephen Earl, and David Resnick. 1990. "The
Implications of Nonvoting for Democracy in the United States."
American Journal of Political Science 34 (3, August):
771-802. (Mostly Chi-Square tests, eta, and tau c.)
Dougherty, Keith L. 1999. "Public Goods and Private
Interests: An explanation for state compliance with federal
requisitions, 1775-1789," in Jac Heckelman et. al. (eds.) Public
Choice Interpretations of American Economic History. Dordrecht, The
Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishing. (bivariate regressions)
Gibson, James L. 2002. Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation:
Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa. American
Journal of Political Science. 46 (3, September): 540-556.
(Differences of means and a simple multivariate regression.)
Hochschild, Jennifer L. 1995. Facing up to the
American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton,
NJ : Princeton University Press. (See Chapters 3 and 4 for
analyses built mainly around crosstabs.)
Hokenmaier, Karl G. 1998. "Social Security vs. Educational
Opportunity in Advanced Industrial Societies: Is There a
Trade-Off?" American Journal of Political Science,
42:709-711. (simple correlations)
Hood, M.V. and G.W. Neeley. 2000. Packin' in the hood?:
Examining assumptions of concealed-handgun research. Social
Science Quarterly 81 (2, June): 523-537. (Crosstabs)
Hurwitz, Jon and Mark Peffley. 1997. "Public Perceptions
of Race and Crime: The Role of Racial Stereotypes." American
Journal of Political Science 41 (2, April): 375-401.
(Bivariate regressions.)
Licklider, Roy. 1995. “The Consequences of Negotiated
Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945-1993.” American Political
Science Review 89 (3, September): 681-690.
(Chi-Square)
Lodge, Milton G. and Ruth Hamill. 1986. "A Partisan
Schema for Political Information Processing." American
Political Science Review 80 (2, June): 505-520. (T-tests and 2
way ANOVAs)
Matland, Richard E. 1994. "Putting Scandinavian
Equality to the Test - an Experimental Evaluation of Gender Stereotyping
of Political Candidates in a Sample of Norwegian Voters." British
Journal of Political Science 24: 273-292. (Difference of
means tests)
Mann, Thomas and Raymond Wolfinger. 1980. "Candidates and
Parties in Congressional Elections." American Political Science
Review 74 (3, September): 617-632. (Percentages and means,
no real statistical tests)
Segal, Jeffrey A. and Albert D. Cover. 1989.
"Ideological Values and the Votes of United States Supreme Court
Justices. American Political Science Review 83 (2, June):
557-565. (frequencies, a simple scatterplot, and bivariate correlations)
Wood, Sandra L, Linda Camp Keith, Drew Noble Lanier, and Ayo Ogundele.
1998. "‘Acclimation Effects' for Supreme Court Justices: A
Cross-Validation, 1888-1940." American Journal of Political
Science 42: 690-697. (difference of means tests)
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