Multiple Rater Research
Overview
Skip Krueger, I, and co-authors published a series of papers conceptualizing default risk as a multiple rater problem including the papers by Krueger and Walker (2010), Krueger, Hawkins, and Walker (2010), Walker and Krueger (2009), and Krueger and Walker (2008).
Sinclair-Chapman, Walker, and Gillion (2009) examines political participation in this light. Maltz et al. (2024) used this to explore a key measure. Current work with Ashley Nixon and co-authors uses these and related techniques for capturing work stress.
Data & Code
All research materials, including data and replication code, are available on my GitHub.
I am committed to computational reproducibility and open science. Most projects include:
- Documented R/Python code
- Data (when not restricted)
- Quarto/RMarkdown analysis notebooks
- Instructions for replication
References
Krueger, Skip, Christopher V. Hawkins, and Robert W. Walker. 2010. “The Cost of Boosterism: Economic Development, Growth Management, and Municipal Bond Ratings.” Municipal Finance Journal 31 (2): 51–75.
Krueger, Skip, and Robert W. Walker. 2008. “Divided Government, Political Turnover, and State Bond Ratings.” Public Finance Review 36 (3): 259–86.
———. 2010. “Management Practices and State Bond Ratings.” Public Budgeting & Finance 30 (4): 47–70.
Sinclair-Chapman, Valeria, Robert W. Walker, and Daniel Q. Gillion. 2009. “Unpacking Civic Participation: Analyzing Trends in Black and White Participation over Time.” Electoral Studies 28 (4): 550–61.
Walker, Robert W., and Skip Krueger. 2009. “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Split Bond Rating in States.” Public Budgeting & Finance 29 (1): 84–101.