Chris Hanretty

'academic' Category

• Aug

  28

  2009

  Attention lawyers: paper on ECJ judges’ ideal points

  This paper by Michael Malecki looks like an tremendous breakthrough in the study of judicial decision-making. It uses changes in the composition of the European Court of Justice — more particularly, in the composition of the subdivisions of the court in which the judges hear cases — to estimate judges’ ideal points, pro- or anti-integration.

  In [...]

  posted in academic, ecj, ideal points by Chris

• Apr

  09

  2009

  New Italian politics publication

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

  posted in academic, italy by Chris

• Mar

  04

  2009

  Abstentions in the Italian parliament

  I’ve recently been investigating whethether high rates of abstentions and missing data cause problems for roll-call analysis of the Italian parliament. Here are some figures for the 14th Camera. Of the 1,141,673 possible votes (1657 rollcalls with 689 individuals):

  23.5% were votes in favour
  51.6% were votes against
  1.8% were registered abstentions
  23.1% were absent — that is, that [...]

  posted in academic, italy, parliament, voting by Chris

• Dec

  23

  2008

  Useless thesis statistics

  I’m close to finishing the alpha release of my thesis. I’ve always been fascinated by readability statistics and other document metrics. Here are some metrics calculated with style.

  96,281 words (including bibliography and tables), of which
  84,172 words in 3,585 full-fledged sentences.
  220 sources cited.
  48% of sentences are short (less than 20 words).
  6 source languages used (English, Italian, [...]

  posted in academic, thesis by Chris