• Apr
    22
    2009

    EUProfiler launched

    Many friends of mine have been working on www.euprofiler.eu, and its wonderful to see their hard work come to fruition.
    The fascinating thing about the site is that it’ll tell you whichEuropean party comes closest to your positions, throughout all of Europe. I came closest to the Pirate Bay, then the Croatian Social Liberal Party. Disregarding [...]

  • Apr
    12
    2009

    Italian deputies’ ideal points

    In previous posts I’ve tried to explain why some traditional methods for identifying legislators’ ideal points, such as optimal classification, don’t work in the Italian parliament. (A legislator’s ideal point is the point in some political space, such as the one-dimensional left-right political space, which they would prefer to any other point in that space).

    Given [...]

  • Apr
    09
    2009

    New Italian politics publication

    It’s called the Bulletin of Italian Politics. See here – [Bulletin of Italian Politics flier.doc].

  • Apr
    01
    2009

    DR viewers’ editor seeks to bolster position

    Press release from Jakob Mollerup, Danmarks Radio’s viewers’ editor, noting that more people are complaining to him instead of the Pressnaevnet. Must be tough dealing with overlapping jurisdictions for complaints; touting your own success surely is one way for dealing with it, and edging out the other guy.

  • Apr
    01
    2009

    Nominees to board of ABC

    From ABC:
    Julianne Schultz and Michael Lynch are the first two directors to be appointed to the ABC board under a new process implemented by the Federal Government to make the system more transparent.
    Dr Schultz is the founding editor of the Griffith Review and is a Professor at the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at [...]

 
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