i think this is very good. tiny points below.
On Sun, 11 May 2003, Ryan Thomas Moore wrote:
Comments and suggestions are much appreciated!
Thanks,
Ryan & Nirmala
Differential Disadvantage: The Political Fortunes of Minorities in
i'd call it the political MISfortunes. that makes YOUR point.
Direct Democracy
In this paper, we examine the success of California's black, Latino, and
Asian voters in ballot proposition elections. Hajnal, Gerber, and Louch
(2002) argue that across all propositions blacks and Asians
tend to be on the winning side as often as whites. After using multiple
tend to be -> are
imputation to augment their dataset, we demonstrate
below that all three
delete 'below'. the abstract should be written as self-contained.
i'd make clear in a few words what MI is doing for you here. something
like. instead of deleting 1/2 of the original dataset because of listwise
deletion, we multiply impute 5% of the missing cells...
minority groups fare worse than whites, and that each
group has
experienced a unique pattern of failure and success in California's
initiative and referendum elections. We show persistent differences of 2
to 3 percentage points between whites' and minorities' probabilities of
being on the winning side. Moreover, the success of different groups in
direct democracy is highly conditional upon the margin of victory.
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Ph.D. Candidate ~ Harvard University
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