Alexander Sahn
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The effect of policy traceability on legislative incentives Open
Theories of legislative politics have long emphasized how a policy's traceability---whether and how voters connect legislative action with policy effects---shapes political incentives to legislate. Arnold (1992) emphasized how the ``nature…
Equivalency Framing of Problems and Policy Solutions Open
While there is a large political science literature on framing effects, almost none of it has focused on equivalency framing of actual problems and potential solutions. We investigate whether the public expresses more concern about societa…
Public Comment and Public Policy Open
Is public policy responsive to demographically and ideologically unrepresentative comments given at public meetings? I investigate this possibility using a novel data set of over 40,000 comments made at the San Francisco Planning Commissio…
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform Open
A prominent argument holds that the chief purpose of municipal civil service reform in the United States was to dislodge the overrepresentation of recent immigrants in city government. Using new data on all municipal employees from 1850 to…
Replication Data for: The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform Open
A prominent argument holds that the chief aim of municipal civil service reform in the United States was to dislodge the overrepresentation of recent immigrants in city government. Using new data on all municipal employees from 1850–1940, …
Constructing interval variables via faceted Rasch measurement and multitask deep learning: a hate speech application Open
We propose a general method for measuring complex variables on a continuous, interval spectrum by combining supervised deep learning with the Constructing Measures approach to faceted Rasch item response theory (IRT). We decompose the targ…
Replication Data for: Gender Race and Intersectionality in Campaign Finance Open
Replication Data for "Gender, Race, and Intersectionality in Campaign Finance"
Replication Data for: Achieving Statistical Significance with Control Variables and without Transparency Open
Replication Data for: Achieving Statistical Significance with Control Variables and without Transparency
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