Papers of the NKSS Project

Several conference papers and a published article have been produced from the NKSS Project that can be accessed from this site.

+ Our first paper was both the longest and the most theoretical. It endeavored to lay out the entire rationale for our methodological approach.

A New Kind of Social Science:The Path Beyond Current (IR) Methodologies May Lie Beneath Them by Valerie M. Hudson, Brigham Young University, Philip A. Schrodt, University of Kansas, and Ray D. Whitmer, Jhax.Ltd., paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 2004.

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+ Our second paper.

Hudson, Valerie M., Philip A. Schrodt, Ray D. Whitmer, “A New Kind of Social Science: Moving Ahead with Reverse Wolfram Models Applied to Event Data,” paper presented at the 46th annual International Studies Association convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2005

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+ Our third paper.

Hudson, Valerie M., Philip A. Schrodt, and Ray C. Whitmer, “A New Kind of Social Science: Analyzing Israeli-Palestinian Event Data Using Reverse Wolfram Models,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California, 22-25 March 2006

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+ Our fourth paper.

Schrodt, Philip A. and Valerie M. Hudson, “A Conditional Probability Analysis of Pattern-Based Models Applied to Event Data in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 31 August-3 September 2006

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+ Our fifth paper and first published NKSS paper appeared in 2008 in the journal Foreign Policy Analysis.

Hudson, Valerie M., Philip A. Schrodt, Ray D. Whitmer (2008)"“Discrete Sequence Rule Models as a Social Science Methodology: An Exploratory Analysis of Foreign Policy Rule Enactment within Palestinian-Israeli Event Data," Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 4, 105-126.

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+ Our sixth paper:

Schrodt, Philiip A., Valerie M. Hudson Cristian Cantir (2009) "Personality, Popularity, and Prosperity: Exploring Covariates of Israeli Foreign Policy Behavior (1979-2008) Using Discrete Sequence Pattern Recognition," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, 2-5 September

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