There and Back Again
I have left Britain’s Best Politics Department (™) for my alma mater, which (oddly enough) wants me back.
AJPS article on the Extreme Right published
My article on Contextual Factors (unemployment, immigration, other parties) and the Extreme Right vote in Western Europe between 1980 and 2002 was yesterday published in the American Journal of Political Science (online). Obviously, I’m absolutely chuffed. The DOI (doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2009.00369.x) does not work yet, but the link to Wiley Interscience does. Here is the full bibliographic…
Remixes of the paranoid suspect your neighbours posters
As a light-hearted follow-up to my post on the growth of the database state in the UK, here is a link to boing-boings [caption id="" align="alignright" width="426" caption="Well done, junior!"][/caption] “remix the British Transport Police’s paranoid turn-in your neighbour posters” campaign. Most of the pictures sent in are really good, and many of them look…
Rowntree Trust Report: Britain a Database State, and not even efficient at that
No western democracy has more surveillance cameras per citizen than the UK, and few European countries are collecting data on their citizens on such an Orwellian scale. The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has assessed 46 major government databases, and the result is devastating. About a quarter is almost certainly unlawful.
MLwiN 2.10: free for British Academics
MLwiN, multi-level modelling granddaddy, is now freely available for British academics thanks to the ESRC funded Lemma program.
New Blog on the German 2009 Elections
Colleagues Andrea Römmele and Thorsten Faas have set up a new blog that will cover the many German elections of 2009 (seats in the federal parliament, several state parliaments, local councils as well as the presidency are all up for grabs) and asked me to contribute. How could I resist them? “Wahlen nach Zahlen” (voting…
Highlights from a European Politics Class Test
Some answers given by students in written exams are so brilliant that you couldn’t make it up: Germany and Austria were not content with this and were still at war with each other
David Spiegelhalter on Risk, Knife-Crime and the Probability of Being Killed in London
He can explain to a lay public why a spade in knife-crime is not totally unlikely and does not necessarily indicate an increase in the murder rate
Blog has moved
Twelve months ago, I started a blog at wordpress.com. Half a year ago, I started re-publising its content here. Last week I decided that this was getting too tedious, installed my own copy of wordpress and transferred my stuff here. Onwards and upwards!
Dr Huber’s Sandwich shop
Slightly anxious researchers that suffer from correlated disturbances shuffle into that shop and ask for the massive 18 centimetre sandwich estimator.