S8: Replication in political science

This session features a set of two presentations:

Nov 17, 2022 at 8am Colorado (US)/ 10am Quito (EC), Bogotá (CO) New York (US)/ 3pm Lisbon (PT) and Dublin (IE)/ 4pm Berlin (DE)/ 8:30pm New Dehli (IN)

PRESENTATION 1 by
Carolina Curvale (FLACSO-Ecuador) & Gustavo Pérez-Arrobo (FLACSO-Ecuador & University of Colorado Boulder)

Abstract
We explore the incidence of open science in academic research in the field of Political Science. Open science´s goal is to shed light on information about data, research procedures, and results of academic work, thus making information accessible to reviewers and the general public. This practice is not prevalent across the social sciences although there is increasing interest on the importance of reproducibility in building or rejecting theory and knowledge. However, important epistemological and methodological debates have evolved around the feasibility and desirability of adopting these practices as a standard in the discipline. We systematically collected and analyzed data on publishing requirements of the top journals in the fields at point, including pre-registration. We also provide a state of the art on the implementation of these best practices in Latin America.

For more information please refer to the published article "Documentation Requirements in Political Science Journals: Moving Towards Open Access Practices", Revista de ciencia política (Santiago) 41(3), 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2021005000108

SHORT BIOS

Carolina Curvale is an Associate Professor of Political Science at FLACSO Ecuador. She holds a PhD in Political Science from New York University, where she also earned a master´s degree. She received her baccalaureate from San Andres University in Argentina. Her main research areas are political institutions and political economy, with a regional focus in Latin America. Her research has been published by Oxford University Press and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, among others.

Gustavo Pérez-Arrobo is a research associate in the Political Studies Department at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador, and a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a master´s degree in comparative politics from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador and a BSc in economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. His main areas of research are political economy of development, research methodology in political science and Latin American politics.

PRESENTATION 2
In What Direction? Replication and Extension of Oskooii 2020 'Perceived Discrimination and Political Behavior'
by Andrej Cvetić (Trinity College Dublin, IE)

Abstract
This paper replicates and extends Oskooii 2020. The original paper uses the Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) dataset to study how social and political discrimination on individual level influence voting behaviour of minorities. My paper successfully replicates the original results and extends the paper by performing the same statistical procedure on the European Social Survey (ESS) wave 5 dataset for UK and Western European countries. In the extension I analyse the effect of group discrimination on voting. My results indicate group discrimination lowers the propensity to cast a ballot, which runs counter to prevalent findings in the literature.

The replication paper, coding scripts in R and used datasets are available in this link.

The original study that was replicated is "Perceived Discrimination and Political Behavior", Kassra A.R. Oskooii, British Journal of Political Science 50(3), 2020, pp. 867 – 892. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123418000133.

SHORT BIO

Andrej Cvetić is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin. He is interested in political psychology and immigration. Currently, his research is focused on political integration of immigrants in Western Europe.

Please, use the discussion page at ReplicationWiki to comment or ask questions in written form.