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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Four Metaphors for the Internet (and Politics)
Does the internet have a political disposition? Or is it inert, providing a tabula rasa for political ambitions already familiar to the offline world? Likely the truth lies somewhere between these two poles. Building on an earlier post, here I discuss … Continue reading
Voter Loyalty in Two Countries
Preliminary graphs from an ongoing project with Pablo Beramendi (apologies for the very plain presentation): For both plots, the loyalty rate is calculated as the probability that an individual votes for party x in election t given that they voted … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, data, elections, political science, politics, probability, R, statistics
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Germany’s Open Source Political Party
From Josh Kron at The Atlantic: With Germany’s 2013 federal elections swift approaching, the Pirates have become the protest party of the moment. The Party is not limited to Germany. It didn’t even begin there. Sister Pirate Parties have won … Continue reading
How Should We Measure Military Power?
We have been on a kick of government and power questions lately. In the field of international relations, power is often the cause or effect that we are most interested in. This makes measuring it appropriately very important, but the … Continue reading
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Tagged data, economics, ethical statistics, history, international relations, political science, politics, R, research, statistics, violence, war
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Writing Advice Round-Up
Novelist Colson Whitehead has 11 rules for writing. Number 10 is, “Revise, revise, revise.” Andrew Gelman suggests writing your research paper in reverse. (The original link appears to be broken, but Alex Tabarrok reblogged the whole thing.) Jim Stinson of … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, education, how-to, political science, research, rhetoric, social science, writing
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How Do Leaders Emerge in Open-Source Software?
Ola Bini recently gave a talk entitled, “Anarchy, Cooperation, and the Bazaar” that caught my attention and relates to our discussions last week. I was particularly interested in Bini’s views on the emergence of leadership in open source development. In … Continue reading
Are States Like Firms?
We have been looking at analogies for government this week (first the stationary bandit, then an internet platform). Today, I want to offer one more: the state as a firm. In this idealized view, conflict in political life is akin … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, data, economics, education, elections, history, micro-institutions everywhere, political science, political theory, politics, research, Ronald Coase
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How is Government Like the Internet?
Reid Hoffman thinks we should view government as an internet platform upon which citizens build lives. He isn’t speaking literally, but he isn’t far off the mark either. Hoffman’s background is in philosophy, so it is not surprising that his … Continue reading
Where Do Governments Come From?
Going back to the “big question” theme at the heart of this blog, let us consider two stories about where governments come from. Ideas about this have been around as long as governments have, which is a long time. But … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, behavior, culture, data, economics, experiments, government, history, micro-institutions, politics, research, violence, war
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