What are you talking about? Her research design was intended to demonstrate the folly in using rain as an instrument. If you're ***** on anybody at Vanderbilt, it should be JH. That guy is just a straight dickhead.
From the article: "First, rainfall is an exogenous predictor of dissent onset, meeting the key criteria for the instrumental analysis to allow for causal inference." So, c'mon... @Jennie, perhaps on the rainfall use, but the Maidan was three years later, the Umbrella protests were four years after, and Occupy was a year after. You're ok with the timing? And no, the reviewers didn't read the Appendix. That's the whole point. One of her best placed pieces counters her main theory. That's something, no? You don't have much experience if you think the cmte read the appendix. What's my problem with the whole thing? She's an above average political scientist, who is often wrong, with a premium job. I have a better job, much better pay, and a better situation, but I like the leveling effects of this platform. If she were the least bit humble...