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Publication, Publication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2006

Gary King
Gary King
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Harvard University
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I show herein how to write a publishable paper by beginning with the replication of a published article. This strategy seems to work well for class projects in producing papers that ultimately get published, helping to professionalize students into the discipline, and teaching the scientific norms of the free exchange of academic information. I begin by briefly revisiting the prominent debate on replication our discipline had a decade ago and some of the progress made in data sharing since.My deepest appreciation goes, in addition to my students, to the numerous scholars who have cheerfully, and in some cases repeatedly, responded to my students' queries over many years. Thanks also to the National Institutes of Aging (P01 AG17625-01) and the National Science Foundation (SES-0318275, IIS-9874747) for research support.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 119 - 125
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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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