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Natural and quasi-natural experiments to evaluate cybersecurity policies / Dean, Benjamin

Dean, Benjamin	Journal Article
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Natural Experiments ; Cybersecurity Policy ; Quasi-Natural Experiments

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Televising Justice during War / Stapleton, Stephen; Wright, Austin L ; Uribe, Andres

Wright, Austin L	Journal Article
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Television is an overlooked tool of state building. We estimate the impact of televising criminal proceedings on public use of government courts to resolve disputes. We draw on survey data from Afghanistan, where the government used television as a mechanism for enhancing the legitimacy of formal legal institutions during an ongoing conflict. We find consistent evidence of enhanced support for government courts among survey respondents who trust television following the nation’s first televised criminal trial. We find no evidence that public confidence in other government functions (e.g. economy, development, corruption) improved during this period. Our findings suggest that television may provide a means of building state legitimacy during war and other contexts of competition between political authorities.

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Conflict Resolution ; Afghanistan ; Trials ; Natural Experiments ; Mass Media

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When natural experiments are neither natural nor experiments / Sekhon, Jasjeet S; Titiunik, Rocio

Sekhon, Jasjeet S	Journal Article
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2012.

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Natural experiments help to overcome some of the obstacles researchers face when making causal inferences in the social sciences. However, even when natural interventions are randomly assigned, some of the treatment-control comparisons made available by natural experiments may not be valid. We offer a framework for clarifying the issues involved, which are subtle and often overlooked. We illustrate our framework by examining four different natural experiments used in the literature. In each case, random assignment of the intervention is not sufficient to provide an unbiased estimate of the causal effect. Additional assumptions are required that are problematic. For some examples, we propose alternative research designs that avoid these conceptual difficulties.

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Social Sciences ; Natural Experiments

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