Scott de Marchi

Linking Theory and Empirics: The Importance of Research Communities

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Prediction and Cumulative Knowledge in the Social Sciences

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Rashomon Histories: What the Data Support Is Bigger Than What We Report

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Decisive or Distracted: The Effects of United States Constraint on Security Networks

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Government Formation in the Shadow of an Uncertain Future Election

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Replication Data for Decisive or Distracted: The Effects of United States Constraint on Security Networks

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Using Large Language Models to Analyze Political Texts Through Natural Language Understanding

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Nuclear and Conventional Deterrence in Theory and Practice

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Replication Data for The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies: A Computational Social Science Approach

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Complexity of Polarization

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Policy and the Structure of Roll Call Voting in the US House

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Replication Data for Policy and the Structure of Roll Call Voting in the US House

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Computational and Machine Learning Models: The Necessity of Connecting Theory and Empirics

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Government Formation as Logrolling in High-Dimensional Issue Spaces

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Replication Data for Government Formation as Logrolling in High-Dimensional Issue Spaces

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Cabinet Formation and Portfolio Distribution in European Multi-party Systems

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Agent Based Models

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Congressional Bargaining in Presidential Time: Give and Take, Anticipation, and the Constitutional Rationalization of Dead Ducks

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Negotiation in Legislatures over Government Formation

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

District Complexity as an Advantage in Congressional Elections

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Computational and Agent Based Models

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Costly Search and the Advantages of Incumbency: Some Experimental Results

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Trust, but Verify: Assessing the Accuracy of Self-reported Pollution Data

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Untangling Neural Networks

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

The President's Ability to Capitalize on Approval for Legislative Success

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Adaptive Models and Electoral Instability

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Contact

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Email: scott.demarchi@gmail.com

Institution: Department of Political Science, Duke University

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Teaching

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Graduate Courses

Computational Social Science and Political Economy
Game Theory
Institutions Core Seminar — Syllabus
Intermediate Statistical Methods
Machine Learning and NLP — Syllabus
Modeling Counterinsurgencies
Readings in Real Analysis
Research Design and Causal Inference — Syllabus

Undergraduate Courses

Campaigns and Elections
Comparative Legislative Institutions
Fundamentals of Decision Science — Syllabus
Introduction to Machine Learning (FOCUS Program) — Syllabus
Predicting Legislators: Voting Behavior in the US Congress
Statistical Methods and Research Design