The summer 2013 edition of the Extreme Right Bibliography is out, bringing the total count to 437 titles. Suggestions for additions welcome – please get in touch.
The delta method approximates the expectation of some function of a random variable by relying on a (truncated) Taylor series expansion. In plain words, that means that one can use the delta method to calculate confidence intervals and perform hypothesis tests on just about every linear or nonlinear transformation of a vector of parameter estimates. Stata’s procedure nlcom is a particularly versatile and powerful implementation of the delta method. If you can write down the formula of the transformation, nlcom will spit out the result. And that means that you can abuse Stata’s built in procedures to implement your own estimators.
VS/Springer has just published the a massive volume on the 2009 Bundestag election. Our chapter looks (once more) into the differences between voters in the former Federal Republic and their eastern compatriots in the 2009 election. While these differences persist, we find that people in the West are also deviating from traditional patterns of voting behaviour. (In German)
Hintergrundgespräch mit Zeit Online über die neuen antieuropäischen Protestparteien: Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment Das volle Interview mit Zeit Online zu Anti-Euro Parteien: Protest alleine reicht nicht
This is my last post on the 2013 Joint Sessions. Promise.
These are the slides for my Oxford talk on competition between the Centre Left and the Extreme Right (aka Working Class Parties 2.0) for the working class vote in Western Europe.
“Ist dagegen das neue dafür”? Short interview with detektor.fm radio on protest parties in Europe (in German).
Germany’s (very polite) answer to UKIP is “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD), a new party that wants to abolish the Euro. While this is certainly a novelty in German party politics, I don’t think it’s a game changer for the September election. Why? Read my guest post on the AfD over at the LSE’s excellent European…
Interview mit HR Info zu den Aussichten neuer Parteien bei der Landtagswahl in Hessen im September 2013
In which I’m taking my paper on the election between the Centre Left and the Extreme Right for the working class vote to Academic Wonderland (TM).