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How not to conduct a regression discontinuity design using a continuous measure of democracy Open

Chris Hanretty · 2024

I review a recent article published in this journal (Ademi and Kimya, 2023) which uses a continuous measure of democracy as the basis for a ‘fuzzy regression discontinuity design’ investigating the effect of democratization on party system…

Legislators’ accountability for issue stances: evidence from Australia’s Marriage Law Postal Survey Open

Chris Hanretty, Jill Sheppard · 2024

For legislators to be held accountable for their stances voters need to sanction unpopular positions. However, because of strong party discipline it is difficult to identify the effects of individual MPs' stances rather than the stance of …

Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion Open

Chris Hanretty, Tim Bale, Mónica Poletti, Paul Webb · 2024

Do local political party members reflect the views of voters in their constituencies? Since candidate selection by local party members is the most common form of candidate selection in the United Kingdom, it is important to understand loca…

Simulating Party Shares Open

Denis Cohen, Chris Hanretty · 2023

We tackle the problem of simulating seat- and vote-shares for a party system of a given size. We show how these shares can be generated using unordered and ordered Dirichlet distributions. We show that a distribution with a mean vector giv…

Replication Data for: The effect of employment on attendance: A response to Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement Open

Chris Hanretty · 2023

This archive only contains the R code necessary to replicate the analysis. The original data can be found at https://doi.org/10.1177/026339572210868

Replication Data for: Simulating party shares Open

Chris Hanretty, Denis Cohen · 2023

We tackle the problem of simulating seat- and vote-shares for a party system of a given size. We show how these shares can be generated using unordered and ordered Dirichlet distributions. We show that a distribution with a mean vector giv…

The effect of employment on attendance: A response to ‘Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement’ Open

Chris Hanretty · 2023

I challenge Strong’s findings that student employment is not related to attendance. I argue that the original analysis is guilty of controlling for a post-treatment variable. As a result, the coefficients in the regression model do not sho…

Party system polarization and the effective number of parties Open

Chris Hanretty · 2022

Polarization is a key characteristic of party systems, but scholars disagree about how polarization relates to the number of parties in a system. Different authors find positive, negative, or null relationships. This relationship is what o…

Replication Data for: The Pork Barrel Politics of the Towns Fund Open

Chris Hanretty · 2021

The article reviews the selection of towns in England under the Town Deals scheme, a funding scheme set up in the summer of 2019. Under the scheme, 101 towns in England were selected from a long-list of 541 towns to bid for funding to impr…

Replication Data for: Forecasting multiparty by-elections using Dirichlet regression Open

Chris Hanretty · 2021

Replication data for this article. Relative file paths may need to be changed to make sure the code runs properly.

Members of Parliament are Minimally Accountable for Their Issue Stances (and They Know It) Open

Chris Hanretty, Jonathan Mellon, Patrick English · 2021

For incumbents to be accountable for their issue stances, voters must sanction incumbents whose positions are “out of step” with their own. We test the electoral accountability of British legislators for their stance on Brexit. We find tha…

Replication Data for: Members of Parliament are minimally accountable for their issue stances (and they know it) Open

Chris Hanretty, Jonathan Mellon, Patrick English · 2021

For incumbents to be accountable for their issue stances, voters must sanction incumbents whose positions are `out of step' with their own. We test the electoral accountability of British legislators for their stance on Brexit. We find tha…

The pork barrel politics of the towns fund: funding decisions were driven by party-political considerations, not by need Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

The Towns Fund is a scheme designed to support towns across England, particularly those with high levels of income deprivation. Chris Hanretty takes a look at the selection of towns invited to bid for funding under the scheme. He finds tha…

The Government Deference Dimension of Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Norway Open

Jon Kåre Skiple, Henrik Littleré Bentsen, Chris Hanretty · 2020

Past research has revealed conflicting findings regarding the degree to which judges on European apex courts enact their policy preferences or instead disagree on the basis of divergent legal views. We investigate disagreement between judg…

Replication Data for: The Government Deference Dimension of Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Norway Open

Jon Kåre Skiple, Henrik Litleré Bentsen, Chris Hanretty · 2020

This archive contains R + Stan code to replicate the analysis found in "The Government Deference Dimension of Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Norway" (Scandinavian Political Studies). The data is a subset of da…

Who Gets Heard? Permission to Appeal Decisions Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

This chapter examines the “permission to appeal” (PTA) process at the Supreme Court. Each year more than two hundred litigants seek permission to appeal from the Supreme Court. Around one-third of these applications are successful. This ch…

A Choice‐Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate Open

Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan · 2020

Measuring how much citizens care about different policy issues is critical for political scientists, yet existing measurement approaches have significant limitations. We provide a new survey‐experimental, choice‐based approach for measurin…

HLV_survey.Rdata Open

Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan · 2020

Survey data objects (R data frames)

conjoint_posterior_covariates_all.Rdata Open

Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan · 2020

Saved posterior object

jcpc_decisions_tidied.tab Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

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05_estimate_covariate_models.R Open

Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan · 2020

Script to re-run model.

02-concepts.R Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

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05-whosits.R Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

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01_estimate_2d_ordinal_irt.R Open

Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan · 2020

Script to re-run model.

03-pta.R Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

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patches.tab Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

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hr_cases_w_dissent.tab Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

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ch2_data.RData Open

Chris Hanretty · 2020

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conjoint_posterior_covariates_age.Rdata Open

Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan · 2020

Saved posterior object

header_publication.tex Open

Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan · 2020

LaTeX header file for RMarkdown compilation

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