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Author Blake Lee-Whiting

As a quantitative political scientist who specializes in survey research, I have programmed many conjoint experiments in Qualtrics! Sometimes, a colleague will reach out for help with this programming, and I’ll share some some JavaScript code to help them with their research. But… individual emails are not the most efficient way to share this method;

Political Science
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Author Blake Lee-Whiting

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Author Blake Lee-Whiting

I am friends with Andrew ( a pseudonym used here for anonymity ), an American who lives in rural Virginia, votes Republican, supports Donald Trump, and holds far-right beliefs. My conversations with Andrew are often political, such that on various phone calls with other mutual friends, Andrew refers to me as his ‘liberal friend from Canada’. I asked Andrew if I could interview him about his political beliefs.

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Author Blake Lee-Whiting

One measure of unequal opportunity is intergenerational economic mobility, the “chance that people who spent their childhood in that location ended up, as adults, higher on the income and economic-status ranking than their parents” (Sanders 2017). A person who lives in a region with high intergenerational economic mobility will be more likely to be in a higher income bracket in their 40s than their parents were at the same age: “the place you

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Author Blake Lee-Whiting

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s decision to introduce a harmonized sales tax (HST) on July 1st, 2010 in Ontario was met with widespread opposition. Politicians denounced the move as politically disastrous. Lorne Gunter argued in the National Post that “McGuinty lacks the natural revulsion for higher taxes that most consumers have.” Considering the political challenges, why did McGuinty implement the HST?