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Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2016

Alan S. Gerber
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, e-mail: alan.gerber@yale.edu
Kevin Arceneaux
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Cheryl Boudreau
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Conor Dowling
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA
D. Sunshine Hillygus
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Abstract

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Copyright © The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2016 

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