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Fails/Pierce: Almond, Lipset, Verba got it all wrong. Political Culture RIP?

May 19, 2012August 7, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Fails/Pierce 2010 article in Political Research Quarterly 2010 is easily the most interesting paper I have read during the last Academic Year (btw, here are my lecture notes). Ever since the 1950s, mainstream political science has claimed that mass attitudes on democracy matter for the stability of democracy,…

Mainz to host 2013 Joint Sessions of Workshops

May 19, 2012July 20, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

Believe it or not: My institution will play host to the 2013 instalment of the ECPR’s highly successful Joint Sessions of Workshops conference series.

Online Survey on Democratic Attitudes

May 19, 2012July 7, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

A group of my students has programmed a short online questionnaire on democratic attitudes. Please do feel free to help them with their work by participating and sharing the link. The survey is short, fun and completely anonymous: http://www.politik.uni-mainz.de/survey/index.php?sid=95262&lang=en

Party ID in Germany: Dead Men Walking …. (Almost) Tall!

May 19, 2012June 7, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

Recently, I re-ran my scripts on a new data set that extends the old series all through the naughties. As you can see, party ID in Germany is not exactly alive and kicking, but the rate of decline has fallen considerably over the last decade.

Random fun fact of the day: Libyan Ministries

May 18, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

Apparently, Libya has a Department for Anti-Corruption or, more precisely, the Ministry for Inspection and Popular Control. Sounds weird? Concepts such as National Liberation Army, Security Forces, Dear Leader(s), People’s Democracy and, last not least, Ministry of Truth spring readily to mind.

Random fun fact of the day

April 28, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

The polity project’s country code for Israel is …

Sampling from a Multinomial Distribution in Stata

May 19, 2012April 9, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

Sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Which, in my case, might be a little simulation of a random process involving an unordered categorical variable. In R, sampling from a multinomial distribution is trivial. rmultinom(1,1000,c(.1,.7,.2,.1)) gives me a vector of random numbers from a multinomial distribution with outcomes 1, 2, 3, and…

New Political Science Blog

May 19, 2012March 22, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

Colleagues over at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham have started yet another political science blog. Its official name is “Ballots & Bullets”, but I find its URL nottspolitics.org rather more memorable. They started out only six weeks ago, but the range of topics and the number of articles…

Review of Tim Spier’s "Modernisierungsverlierer": Die Wählerschaft rechtspopulistischer Parteien in Westeuropa (in German)

March 14, 2013March 20, 2011 by Kai Arzheimer

I’ve just finished a review of Tim Spier’s new book on the electorates of the Western European populist right (Modernisierungsverlierer: Die Wählerschaft rechtspopulistischer Parteien in Westeuropa (in German))