I have a new paper out.
It’s called “Measuring the formal independence of regulatory agencies”, it’s written together with Christel Koop, and it’s available online through JEPP.
The argument we make is quite simple, even if the graphs and models we use aren’t.
We take an existing index of independence, and we test whether all the [...]
I’m writing a grant application.
Some of the documents in support of the application have an upper limit on the number of characters; some have an upper limit on the number of pages.
I find limits on the number of pages annoying. The quantity of pages of a document has no relationship to the quantity of [...]
I got tired of waiting for the ECPR printed programme, and got frustrated with the ECPR website.
So I made my own PDF programme for Reykjavik 2011. It’s in A5 format, and is optimized for e-readers, so very thin margins. Other formats on request.
Italian presidents play a generally low-profile, but crucially important, role in the country’s political system, responsible as they are for mediating and regulating with the aim of ensuring that political processes are carried on without threatening national integration. This importance appears to be reflected in the results of surveys which regularly show much higher levels [...]
There are a number of things which annoy me about academic publishing.
Matching my output to the requirements of the journal is the worst of them.
I spent a lot of time learning LaTeX in order to make my documents look good.
But now I find that journals require me to make changes to my document which, in [...]
Parochial interest only, but here they are
I’ve just emailed the final version of my thesis to the department.
I’ve spent most of today listening to my robotic overlord (his name is Alan) read out chunks of my thesis in the vain hope that I would better spot typos or errors that way. The idea — far too good to be my own, [...]