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fsolt commented 4 months ago

The front half of Explaining Political Dissatisfaction needs a bit of theory to justify our model of the sources of PPD. We need some discussion—a couple of paragraphs to a couple of pages, total—that hits on all of the following variables:

Of course, most of these could be usefully grouped into larger concepts like "institutions" and "economic conditions", for example, but I'll leave the decision on whether to do something like that to you.

Jeongho-Choi commented 4 months ago

@fsolt Hi Fred, I believe @haofengma has already written theories about the source of political discontent (please see political_discontent_as_dv.pdf). Just to clarify, do you want us to revise his theory section further or write separate paragraphs about them?

haofengma commented 4 months ago

@fsolt Hi Fred, there is currently a version of the section inside the "document" folder. Basically the variables listed here are the variables I covered in the draft, but I also have a paragraph on political corruption as the IV. I added a question regarding if we should have it inside issue 2 here

fsolt commented 4 months ago

Yes, thanks, I've just looked that over---you did an excellent job. I'm going to suggest that we leave corruption out, for now at least. I think perceived corruption is uncomfortably close to our concept of political discontent (we have political corruption indicators in our dataset, for example), so the argument risks being a tautological explanation. (I mean, I almost used TI's CPI as a validation test, but I couldn't decide if it was a test of construct validation or just convergent, and ultimately I went a different way.) So let's leave that out for now, and if reviewers want it we can reconsider.

Please plug the rest of it into the main document, https://github.com/fsolt/dcpo_discontent/blob/main/paper/dcpo_discontent.qmd, and add any needed citations to the main bib file.

haofengma commented 4 months ago

Thank you @fsolt ! I got the section, without corruption, incorporated!

fsolt commented 4 months ago

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