Is the title of this excellent looking conference at which I’ll be presenting.
This upgrade was much smoother than my upgrade to Maverick. Only problem concerned the notification for the dropbox daemon, but following the tips in the comment page here sorted that out.
Not sure what I think about Unity, and I haven’t worked out where the setting for the number of workspaces is (it’s not in [...]
I haven’t been blogging much about public broadcasting recently. I’ll be blogging more as and when my book comes out. But here’s a tit-bit from Italy: Lorenza Lei has been appointed as first female director-general of Rai. Reasons to be cheerful:
Lei replaces Mauro Masi, who had an unhappy and brief (two-year) tenure.
Lei was appointed by [...]
In this Thursday’s referendum on voting reform, I’ll be voting Yes to a change in the UK’s electoral system.
I’ll probably be in a minority. Polls show consistent double digit or greater leads for the No campaign. But I thought it might be useful to say why I’m voting Yes to the Alternative Vote.
My contribution to the Mammone/Veltri edited collection, “Italy Today”, is referenced obliquely in Tim Parks’ write-up at the New Yorker:
Many of the essays in “Italy Today” describe situations that tend to support Graziano’s gloomier analysis. One focusses on an aging political élite that “is indecisive and creates obstacles,” and “hides itself cynically in nepotistic protection.” [...]
I’ll be acting as an ‘expert witness’ in an AV debate on Tuesday 3rd May, 6pm, at the Curve Auditorium in the Forum, Norwich. Here’s the event flyer
A couple of weeks ago I posted about an analysis of Senatorial candidates’ ideology using their Twitter accounts. The analysis was done by Aaron King, Frank Orlando, and David Sparks. There’s a write-up here.
I thought the paper was so cool that I replicated the analysis for the UK context. The note is available here, and [...]
I’ve missed out on this year’s PSA, but in my defence I’ve been hard at work.
I’ve just finished a very preliminary draft of a paper on the Labour leadership elections. It draws on the same data I noted earlier.
The abstract is as follows:
I analyse the preference data of Labour MPs and MEPs in [...]
I’m presenting a paper at the SLSA this week. It’s about the specificity of constitutions. The question is this: how can you measure how specific a constitution is — apart from using some proxy like length in words?
The answer given by Elkins and Ginsburg is this: enumerate some canonical list of constitutional provisions, and count [...]
This MPSA paper is cool. H/t the Monkey Cage.