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.
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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.
Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002
In a recent paper on Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002. Immigration and unemployment rates are important, but their interaction with other political factors is complex. Replication data available.
Turnout, Lakatos, and Case Studies
I was slightly surprised that I would have the right to respond to that reply. Where does it stop?
Political Science Peer-Review Survey: 836 respondents and counting
With about 100 new respondents, yet another brilliant week for the Political Science Peer-Review Survey draws to a close. While the snowball is still rolling, and while we cannot know for certain because the survey is anonymous after all, we might soon reach a point of saturation: I have received a number of very friendly…
The Alternative Italian Job: Disbanding the Army that Never Was
The Guardian had a wonderful short article last week. Apparently, Italy invented a 300,000 strong army in the 1950s as part of the great game that was the Cold War. And apparently they assumed that the first thing the Soviet spies would watch out for were neither tanks nor barrackes, but an active bureaucracy (something…