Kai Arzheimer » My Stuff http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog A political science blog Sun, 30 May 2010 22:28:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Which of my students are most likely to gang up against me? http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/05/19/which-of-my-students-are-most-likely-to-gang-up-against-me/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/05/19/which-of-my-students-are-most-likely-to-gang-up-against-me/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 20:30:53 +0000 kai http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=405 Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: I’m teaching a lecture course on Political Sociology at the moment, and because everyone is so excited about social capital and social network analysis these days, I decided to run a little online experiment with and on my students. The audience is large (at the beginning of this term, about 220 students had registered for this lecture series) and quite diverse, with some students still in their first year, others in their second, third or fourth and even a bunch of veterans who have spent most of their adult lives in university education. [caption id=”attachment_406″ align=”alignright” width=”150″ caption=”Who knows whom in…

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/05/19/which-of-my-students-are-most-likely-to-gang-up-against-me/feed/ 0 Update on the Peer-Review Survey http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/03/23/update-on-the-peer-review-survey/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/03/23/update-on-the-peer-review-survey/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:13:43 +0000 kai http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=386 Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: Sixteen months ago, we started the Political Science Peer-Review Survey. This week, the input form was shut down. That is about three quarters of a year later than expected, but then again, I underestimated the fallout of my move back to Germany. Moreover, until a few weeks ago there was still a tiny trickle of replies coming in. So far, we have found few major problems with the data. The RA has spotted two instances where the respondent somehow managed to save the data at various stages of the interview, thereby inflating the number of respondents. Moreover, it’s amazing how…

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/03/23/update-on-the-peer-review-survey/feed/ 0 Extreme Right Bibliography Online http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/03/03/extreme-right-bibliography-online/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/03/03/extreme-right-bibliography-online/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:55:42 +0000 kai http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=384 Over the last two decades I have accumulated thousands of references that have travelled with me all the way from bibtex-mode through Endnote, Citavi and some more obscure packages until we finally came full circle and ended up in bibtex-mode again. To my mild surprise, my use of (some) keywords has been fairly consistent so that it was relatively easy (using make, bibtool and bibtex2html) to create a 380+ entries strong online bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe. Enjoy.

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/03/03/extreme-right-bibliography-online/feed/ 0 All singing, all dancing 3d function plots with beamer, pgfplots and animate.sty http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/01/23/all-singing-all-dancing-3d-function-plots-with-beamer-pgfplots-and-animate-sty/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/01/23/all-singing-all-dancing-3d-function-plots-with-beamer-pgfplots-and-animate-sty/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:57:17 +0000 admin http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=367 Archived; click post to view.
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Source: Long/Freese, Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata

[/caption] I use emacs/\LaTeXfor all my textprocessing needs, and for the last four or five years, I have created all my slides with Till Tantaus excellent “beamer” class. At the moment, I’m teaching a 2nd year stats course (imagine doing this with PowerPoint – the horror! the horror!), so I sometimes use graphs from the assigned text like this one from Long&Freese that illustrates the latent variable/threshold interpretation of the binary logit model. The message should be fairly clear: y^{*} depends on x andfollows…

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/01/23/all-singing-all-dancing-3d-function-plots-with-beamer-pgfplots-and-animate-sty/feed/ 3 How to get from Stata to Pajek http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/01/10/how-to-get-from-stata-to-pajek/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/01/10/how-to-get-from-stata-to-pajek/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:02:08 +0000 admin http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=362 Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: I’m teaching an introductory SNA class this year. Following a time-honoured tradition, I conducted a small network survey at the beginning of the class using Limesurvey. Getting the data from Limesurvey to Stata via CSV was easy enough. Here is the data set. But how does one get the data from Stata to Pajek for analysis? Actually, it’s quite easy. First, we need to change the layout of the data. In the data set, there is one record for each of the 13 respondent. Each record has 13 variables, one for each (potential) arc connecting the respondent to other students in…

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2010/01/10/how-to-get-from-stata-to-pajek/feed/ 3 Strasbourg Conference Presentation on the Extreme Right http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/15/strasbourg-conference-presentation-on-the-extreme-right/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/15/strasbourg-conference-presentation-on-the-extreme-right/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:30:14 +0000 admin http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=340 Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: Image by Claude-Olivier Marti via Flickr Here is a short presentation on the electorates of the Western European Extreme Right I gave last Thursday at the Collège Doctoral Européen de Strasbourg. And here is the Summary Clear socio-demographic profile: young, male, working/lower middle class Clear attitudinal profile: Not necessarily fully paid-up extremists But dissatisfied with politics and suspicious of immigrants and elites Little support for disintegration thesis Personality traits and additional…

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/15/strasbourg-conference-presentation-on-the-extreme-right/feed/ 0 Data on Knowledge Networks in Political Science Published http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/09/data-on-knowledge-networks-in-political-science-published/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/09/data-on-knowledge-networks-in-political-science-published/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:45:39 +0000 admin http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=330 Replication data for our recent article on knowledge networks in Political Science are available from my dataverse

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/09/data-on-knowledge-networks-in-political-science-published/feed/ 0 Article on Networks in Political Science Published http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/08/article-on-networks-in-political-science-published/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/08/article-on-networks-in-political-science-published/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:19:24 +0000 admin http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=327 Harald’s and my article on citation and collaboration networks in German and British Political Science has finally appeared in print and online, which is obviously great. Here is the abstract:
Citations and co-publications are one important indicator of scientific communication and collaboration. By studying patterns of citation and co-publication in four major European Political Science journals (BJPS, PS, PVS and ÖZP), we demonstrate that compared to the conduits of communication in the natural sciences, these networks are rather sparse. British Political Science, however, is clearly less fragmented than its German speaking counterpart.

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/11/08/article-on-networks-in-political-science-published/feed/ 1 Potsdam Conference Paper on Radical Right Dynamics Online http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/09/13/potsdam-conference-paper-on-radical-right-dynamics-online/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/09/13/potsdam-conference-paper-on-radical-right-dynamics-online/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:09:04 +0000 admin http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=319 Just back from the ECPR conference at Potsdam, which was great fun for various reasons. Here is my conference presentation on the dynamics of radical right support and mainstream party political change in France (PDF).

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]]> http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/09/13/potsdam-conference-paper-on-radical-right-dynamics-online/feed/ 0 Twitter and Exit Polls in Germany http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/09/04/twitter-and-exit-polls-in-germany/ http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/2009/09/04/twitter-and-exit-polls-in-germany/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:47:13 +0000 admin http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=315 Believe or not: in Germany, it is illegal to publish results from exit polls before the polling stations close (at 6pm – we’re German) on polling day. Last Sunday, state elections were held in three Länder, and someone leaked alleged results on twitter while the stations were still open. The political class was outraged and suggested just about anything from banning exit polls to suing twitter, which inspired me to rant against these draconic and silly proposals over at Andrea’s and Thorsten’s Wahlen nach Zahlen blog (in German).
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