• can't attend the #PVV (#wilders party) pre-election rally tomorrow night because I can't get "security clearance". bother. possibly the firs #

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• can't attend the #PVV (#wilders party) pre-election rally tomorrow night because I can't get "security clearance". bother. possibly the firs #

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• sna #

continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23

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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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• BBC: "there could be a legal challenge" because of the inconsistencies re the queues. Is the UK to Europe what Florida is to the US? #ge2010 #
• "A %0 per cent swing would leave them all in the same place". Well done, BBC #ge2010 #

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• BBC: "there could be a legal challenge" because of the inconsistencies re the queues. Is the UK to Europe what Florida is to the US? #ge2010 #
• "A %0 per cent swing would leave them all in the same place". Well done, BBC #ge2010 #

continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

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Excerpt: Being a political scientist is not considered an exciting occupation by people who have a life, and  as party conversation topics go, electoral systems are pretty lousy. But with LibDem support somewhere in the high 20s (if the polls are to be believed), normal people start to wonder why 26% of the vote should give them 12% of the seats, while 28% of the vote for Labour would amount to just under 40% of the seats (you can fiddle with the numbers at the wonderful BBC’s election pages). Image via Wikipedia So it is perhaps unsurprising that the hitherto pretty arcane idea…

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