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A Theory of Divided Government
(JSTOR, 1996)
This paper extends the spatial theory of voting to the case in which policy choices depend upon the interaction between executive and the legislature. Voters are strategic and to analyze equilibrium the authors apply ...
Computing Contrasts, Effect Sizes, and Counternulls on Other People's Published Data: General Procedures for Research Consumers
(American Psychological Association, 1996)
We describe convenient statistical procedures that will enable research consumers (e.g,, professional psychologists, graduate students, and researchers themselves) to reach beyond the published conclusions and make an ...
CONTRASTS AND INTERACTIONS REDUX: Five Easy Pieces
(SAGE Publications, 1996)
ThIs reply to Abelson (this Issue) and Petty, Fabrtgar, Wegener, and Priester (this issue) is couched within the framework offive basic principles advising that we (1) hang on to what we predicted long enough to test It ...
Reliability of Measurement in Psychology: From Spearman-Brown to Maximal Reliability
(American Psychological Association, 1996)
The authors extend the usual approach to the assessment of test or rater reliability to situations that have previously not been appropriate for the application of this standard (Spearman-Brown) approach. Specifically, the ...
Comparing Correlated but Nonoverlapping Correlations
(American Psychological Association, 1996)
A common situation in psychological research involves the comparison of two correlations on the same sample of subjects, in which the correlations are nonoverlapping in the sense of having a variable in common (e.g., ru ...
Morality as Freedom
(Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment
(Elsevier, 1996)
This paper successfully tests on a sample of 71 countries for the period 1960–85 the following hypotheses. Income inequality, by fuelling social discontent, increases sociopolitical instability. The latter, by creating ...
Science and Core Knowledge
(University of Chicago Press, 1996)
While endorsing Gopnik's proposal that studies of the emergence and modification of scientific theories and studies of cognitive development in children are
mutually illuminating, we offer a different picture of the ...
Word Games: The Linguistic Evidence in Black Athena
(University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
Hierarchical Bayes Models with Many Instrumental Variables
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996)
In this paper, we explore Bayesian inference in models with many instrumental variables that are potentially weakly correlated with the endogenous regressor. The prior distribution has a hierarchical (nested) structure. ...