Category: Data and Methods

Definitive version of article on measuring political secularism published (yay!)

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Santa came early and brought me a volume, an issue & even some page numbers. In other word, my Politics & Religion article on the ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—บ is out in print (how very old school!). [bibtex file=ka.bib key=arzheimer-2022] But hey, it is still ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ and digitally yours at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048322000104.

Failing better in Stata

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The Stata idiom capture quietly makes it so that any output from the subsequent command is suppressed, and that even critical failures are happily ignored. Your script soldiers on, and you are none the wiser. I always thought that this is a wonderful metaphor for organisational behaviour. In unrelated news, every other summer, Statacorp comes…

What we are reading: Comparative survey data, random effects and some best practice tips

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Working with repeated comparative survey data – almost a howto There is now a bonanza of studies that rely on surveys which are replicated across countries and time, often with fairly short intervals, with the ESS arguably one of the most prominent examples (but also see the “barometer” studies in various regions). Multi-level analysis is…