Dr Huber’s Sandwich shop
Slightly anxious researchers that suffer from correlated disturbances shuffle into that shop and ask for the massive 18 centimetre sandwich estimator.
Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002
In a recent paper on Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002. Immigration and unemployment rates are important, but their interaction with other political factors is complex. Replication data available.
Turnout, Lakatos, and Case Studies
I was slightly surprised that I would have the right to respond to that reply. Where does it stop?
Political Science Peer-Review Survey: 836 respondents and counting
With about 100 new respondents, yet another brilliant week for the Political Science Peer-Review Survey draws to a close. While the snowball is still rolling, and while we cannot know for certain because the survey is anonymous after all, we might soon reach a point of saturation: I have received a number of very friendly…
The Alternative Italian Job: Disbanding the Army that Never Was
The Guardian had a wonderful short article last week. Apparently, Italy invented a 300,000 strong army in the 1950s as part of the great game that was the Cold War. And apparently they assumed that the first thing the Soviet spies would watch out for were neither tanks nor barrackes, but an active bureaucracy (something…
A good week for the peer-review survey
On Monday, the Political Science Peer-Review Survey had 506 respondents. Between Tuesday and Friday, we sent out 1,100 new invitations. Five days and many contacts with helpful colleagues later the number stands at 626. Feel free to join them.
Political Science Peer-Review Survey: 500+ respondents
The title says it all: yesterday, respondents 500-506 took the Political Science Peer-Review Survey, which is obviously great. A neat detail is that so far, more than 60 current or previous editors of political science journals have taken part in the survey. Tomorrow, we will resume or email campaign (aimed at those who have published…
Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties
Does Christian religiosity reduce or increase the likelihood of a radical/extreme right vote in a West European context?This is the question Liz and I are trying to address in our latest paper
Old Talks
Here are some older talks (going back to 2003) that I have saved from the old website. Mainz 2009 Politikverdrossenheit: Begrifflichkeit, Entwicklung, Ursachen, Lösungsansätze London 2008 Knowledge Networks in EuropeanPolitical Science Mainz 2007 Die Wahrnehmung des deutschen Parteiensystem durch die Bürger, 1997-2005 Was lehren uns Integrationstheorien über die EU? Was können Integrationstheoretiker von der EU…
Update on the Political Science Peer Review Survey
On Monday, we started a new initiative to boost response to the Political Science Peer Review Survey. Thanks to some very industrious research students, we were able to identify about 21,000 individual authors who have published in Social Science Citation Index-covered Political Science Journals between 2000 and 2008. For about 8,000 of these, the SSCI…