Essays on American politics and the science of science
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The essays in this dissertation, despite spanning different substantive topics, collectively speak to the importance of null findings to the scientific enterprise. The first paper quantifies publication bias in the social sciences by analyzing a population of studies known to have been conducted and performing a full accounting of which were published, where, and why. We provide not only direct evidence of publication bias, but also identify the stage of research production at which publication bias occurs — authors do not write up and submit null findings. The second paper examines whether descriptive representation affects trust in different levels of government, finding no relationship between representation by Latino elected officials and trust among their Latino or White constituents in Texas. Although no evidence of an effect is not the same as evidence of no effect, the null finding from this study suggests potential directions for future research on the conditions under minority representational gains may affect political trust. Finally, the third paper documents another remarkable null effect — Presidents regularly make use of the presidential ``bully pulpit" to directly speak to the public on a range of issues, yet using a wide array of new data and an interrupted time series design we show these appeals have little to no effect on public opinion and a small, short-lived effect on news coverage and social media. Our findings challenge several important theories and introduce a new puzzle: why do presidents make public addresses when they have a limited effect?.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Franco, Ana Belen |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Grimmer, Justin |
| Degree supervisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Thesis advisor | Grimmer, Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Thesis advisor | Davenport, Lauren, 1983- |
| Thesis advisor | Malhotra, Neil Ankur |
| Degree committee member | Davenport, Lauren, 1983- |
| Degree committee member | Malhotra, Neil Ankur |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ana Belen Franco. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Ana Belen Franco
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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