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Time is Not A Theoretical Variable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Nathaniel Beck
Nathaniel Beck*
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Department of Politics, New York University, 19 W. 4th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012. e-mail: nathaniel.beck@nyu.edu
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Carter and Signorino (2010) (hereinafter “CS”) add another arrow, a simple cubic polynomial in time, to the quiver of the binary time series—cross-section data analyst; it is always good to have more arrows in one's quiver. Since comments are meant to be brief, I will discuss here only two important issues where I disagree: are cubic duration polynomials the best way to model duration dependence and whether we can substantively interpret duration dependence.

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Research Article
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Political Analysis , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , Summer 2010 , pp. 293 - 294
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Copyright © The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology 

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