Then come hear me at the very first media@uea symposium on the 24th June 2011. Details are here. Quick descriptor:
media@uea is an initiative which brings together the schools of Economics,
Film & Television Studies, International Development, Law, Political, Social &
International Studies and others from across the University of East Anglia.
We are pleased to invite you to [...]
Is the title of this excellent looking conference at which I’ll be presenting.
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 [...]
Here’s my review of Jan-Erik Lane’s book Comparative Politics: the principal-agent perspective. Hat-tip to Peter Kenneally for the epigraph.
Prima facie, there seem to be few reasons to believe that the same framework can explain politics in both representative democracies and feudal regimes, or in Westphalian states and their precursors. Indeed, there seem to be strong [...]
Two more things:
Why do legal journals insist on this bizarre referencing style of Article Author (Year), “Title”, Vol(No) Journal ppp ? And more to the point, does anyone have a bibtex (.bst) or biblatex (.bbx) file that will replicate it, with proper block punctuation?
Wasn’t the Supreme Court’s decision on the Terrorism Order interesting? Partial [...]
More on the impossibility of extracting credible left-right ideal points from parliamentary roll-calls in Italy.
Later today I’ll be presenting some of the results from my paper with Christel Koop at the Robert Schuman Centre at the EUI. Slides are here for those interested. I’ve gone for the white-on-black look with a very pared-down Beamer template.