Many hypothesis in the social sciences involve interaction: The effect of some variable x (say xenophobia) on some variable y (say support for the extreme right) is conditional on a third variable z (say ethnicity). Modelling interactive hypotheses looks straightforward on the surface: simply generate a third variable by multiplying x and z and plug…
Last year, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations published an article which essentially argued that higher levels of welfare state spending create attitudes which are conducive to higher turnout. I was not convinced and so I wrote a comment/replication in which I demonstrate that there is no robust evidence for a universal, politically…
While I’m not an expert on US politics, I was recently “interviewed” online (in writing) on the US primaries (in German) In the future, everyone will be famous for, er, 15 lines.
Interview with the Irish Times on (then) SPD chair Kurt Beck