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Engaging the Periphery—More Busywork for Political Scientists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Joel D. Aberbach
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Bert A. Rockman
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Extract

From one standpoint, it is quite easy to concur with Gary King's exhortations on behalf of researchers making their data sets publicly available. His plea is, after all, consistent with a basic canon of scientific work, namely, that results be capable of replication. Our disagreements with the position taken by King have to do both with practicalities and with an excessively narrow focus on what it means to reassess a given set of findings—issues that we think Paul Herrnson addresses quite tellingly in his statement.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1995

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Footnotes

Aberbach and Rockman are currently collaborating on a study of change in the U.S. federal executive.

References

Dewald, William G.,Thursby, Jerry G., and Anderson, Richard G. 1986. “Replication in Empirical Economics: The Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking Project.” American Economic Review 76:587603.Google Scholar