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View article: Uncertainty and political elites’ behavior: introducing the uncertainty grid
Uncertainty and political elites’ behavior: introducing the uncertainty grid Open
Many, if not most, phenomena faced by political elites are characterized by uncertainty. This characterization also holds for the concept uncertainty itself, with conceptualizations and operationalizations differing both across and within …
View article: Different Ways of Promoting Working Time Reduction: A Comparative Analysis of Actors, Motives, Forms, and Approaches in Germany, Ireland, and Spain
Different Ways of Promoting Working Time Reduction: A Comparative Analysis of Actors, Motives, Forms, and Approaches in Germany, Ireland, and Spain Open
Working time reduction (WTR) is back on the agenda, but there is no systematic knowledge of key actors in the WTR debate, their motives, the forms of WTR advocated, and their approach. Therefore, this article examines the promotion of WTR …
View article: Introducing a Conceptual Map of Political Elites’ Responses to Different Types of Uncertain Phenomena
Introducing a Conceptual Map of Political Elites’ Responses to Different Types of Uncertain Phenomena Open
Political elites—like ministers or members of parliament—face numerous phenomena that are characterized by uncertainty. Uncertainty ranges from resolvable to radical, whereby the former can be removed with more or better information, but r…
View article: Heuristics and policy responsiveness: a research agenda
Heuristics and policy responsiveness: a research agenda Open
Theories of policy responsiveness assume that political decision-makers can rationally interpret information about voters’ likely reactions, but can we be sure of this? Political decision-makers face considerable time and information const…
View article: Digitalization as a policy response to social acceleration: Comparing democratic problem solving in Denmark and the Netherlands
Digitalization as a policy response to social acceleration: Comparing democratic problem solving in Denmark and the Netherlands Open
Social acceleration – the progressively faster rate of technological, social and life-pace change – poses a dilemma for democratic problem solving: It increases the amount of new social problems emerging on the political agenda and hence a…
View article: Do Public Consultations Reduce Blame Attribution? The Impact of Consultation Characteristics, Gender, and Gender Attitudes
Do Public Consultations Reduce Blame Attribution? The Impact of Consultation Characteristics, Gender, and Gender Attitudes Open
Can public consultations—gatherings organised to solicit constituent opinions—reduce the blame attributed to elected representatives whose decisions end up backfiring? Using two pre-registered survey experiments conducted on nationally rep…
View article: EPR volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
EPR volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: EPR volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
EPR volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications Open
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluab…
View article: Three strategies to track configurations over time with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Three strategies to track configurations over time with Qualitative Comparative Analysis Open
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) – a configurational research approach – has become often-used in political science. In its original form, QCA is relatively static and does not analyze configurations over time. Since many key questio…
View article: Conducting quantitative studies with the participation of political elites: best practices for designing the study and soliciting the participation of political elites
Conducting quantitative studies with the participation of political elites: best practices for designing the study and soliciting the participation of political elites Open
Conducting quantitative research (e.g., surveys, a large number of interviews, experiments) with the participation of political elites is typically challenging. Given that a population of political elites is typically small by definition, …
View article: Politicians, the Representativeness Heuristic and Decision-Making Biases
Politicians, the Representativeness Heuristic and Decision-Making Biases Open
Do politicians use the representativeness heuristic when making judgements, that is, when they appraise the likelihood or frequency of an outcome that is unknown or unknowable? Heuristics are cognitive shortcuts that facilitate judgements …
View article: Replication Data for: "Politicians, the Representativeness Heuristic and Decision-Making Biases"
Replication Data for: "Politicians, the Representativeness Heuristic and Decision-Making Biases" Open
Replication data and code for all tables and figures in the main text and the online appendix for: "Politicians, the Representativeness Heuristic and Decision-Making Biases"
Prospect Theory and Political Decision Making Open
Prospect theory—a psychologically founded account of decision making under risk and uncertainty—revolutionized how economists and, later, political scientists thought about decision making under uncertainty. Conceptually, prospect theory i…
View article: Metaphorical framing in political discourse through words vs. concepts: a meta-analysis
Metaphorical framing in political discourse through words vs. concepts: a meta-analysis Open
Conceptual metaphor theory and other important theories in metaphor research are often experimentally tested by studying the effects of metaphorical frames on individuals’ reasoning. Metaphorical frames can be identified by at least two le…
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View article: Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA
Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA Open
Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships—fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)—has l…
View article: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) Does Exactly What It Should Do When Applied Properly: A Reply to a Comment on NCA*
Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) Does Exactly What It Should Do When Applied Properly: A Reply to a Comment on NCA* Open
There are two problems with the comment of Thiem about necessary condition analysis (NCA): First, it is based on wrong assumptions about what NCA aims to do. Second, it applies NCA incorrectly. These are critical errors such that the comme…
View article: Prospect theory and foreign policy decision-making: Underexposed issues, advancements, and ways forward
Prospect theory and foreign policy decision-making: Underexposed issues, advancements, and ways forward Open
How much mileage can we get out of prospect theory to explain foreign policy decision-making? To answer this question, we first argue that risk as outcome uncertainty is the appropriate definition in prospect-theoretical applications. Then…
View article: Addressing the Challenges Related to Transforming Qualitative Into Quantitative Data in Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Addressing the Challenges Related to Transforming Qualitative Into Quantitative Data in Qualitative Comparative Analysis Open
The use of qualitative data has so far received relatively little attention in methodological discussions on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). This article addresses this lacuna by discussing the challenges researchers face when tran…