Workshop
Policy and politics pre-analysis plan workshop
- Date
- Thursday 23 October 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- Free and open to the public (registration required)
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 3.48
An increasing number of scholars at Leiden are using quantitative methods to study topics in politics, policy, and political economy. One challenge of such methods, especially experimental studies, is that a considerable amount of work must be completed before data collection begins, and there are few opportunities to correct errors or shortcomings once studies are executed or fielded. Moreover, opportunities to receive feedback at the most critical stage are limited, since many conference venues discourage the presentation of (just) research designs, pilots or early findings.
At the same time, scholarly communities are placing growing emphasis on the pre-registration of hypotheses and research design choices before data collection. This further increases the importance of making careful decisions in advance and obtaining as much constructive feedback as possible during the design stage.
To help address this challenge, we are organizing an interfaculty workshop that gives Leiden researchers the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their research designs and analysis plans of quantitative studies before data collection as well as on work in progress based on already collected data. Our aim is to foster an inclusive and supportive community of scholars who, while working on diverse topics, are united by their commitment to rigorous quantitative research broadly conceived, and to experimental work in particular.
The first Policy and Politics Pre-Analysis Plan (PAP) Workshop in the series of three workshops this coming academic year will take place in Wijnhaven 3.48 on 23 October at 10:00-12:00.
Programme
The following PAPs will be presented in the first workshop:
- 'Together or Alone: EU-Citizens’ Preferences for Common Green Industrial Policy' by Christina Toenshoff and Adina Akbik
- 'Does emphasizing the need for European competitiveness increase public support for EU fiscal integration? Evidence from a new survey' by Daniel Fernandes, Lars van Doorn, Jaewook Lee, Olaf van Vliet
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'Deceived Expectations: The Effect of Disinformation on Consumers Inflation Expectations' by Arash Pourebrahimi and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz
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'Whose right to protest? Understanding citizens’ support for restrictions on protest rights' by Lars Brummel
Interested in joining this event or staying updated on future PAP activities? Simply write to j.j.kantorowicz@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Organising team
- Matthew DiGiuseppe (Political Science Institute)
- Jaroslaw Kantorowicz (Institute of Security and Global Affairs)
- Graig Klein (Institute of Security and Global Affairs)
- Arash Pourebrahimi (Institute of Security and Global Affairs)
- Dimiter Toshkov (Institute of Public Administration)
- Olaf van Vliet (Economics Department)