'academic' Tag

  • Jun
    07
    2011

    Want to hear why we have public broadcasters?

    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 [...]

  • May
    16
    2011

    The Coalition at One

    Is the title of this excellent looking conference at which I’ll be presenting.

  • Apr
    20
    2011

    New paper, “Is Ed Red? Candidates and Electors in Labour’s 2010 Leadership Elections”

    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 [...]

  • Oct
    20
    2010

    Principals and agents

    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 [...]

  • Jan
    27
    2010

    I fought the law, and the law won (bleg)

    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 [...]

  • Nov
    27
    2009

    Ideal points for the 16th Camera dei Deputati

    More on the impossibility of extracting credible left-right ideal points from parliamentary roll-calls in Italy.

  • Oct
    12
    2009

    Presentation at the Schuman centre today

    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.

 
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