Presentation On Follow-up Research On Second-Order Election Model Posted

I have posted the PowerPoint file Nils Ringe and I presented in New Orleans at the 2007 Southern Political Science Association conference. The presentation–titled Refining and Redefining the Second-Order Election Model: Protest or Pure Preference Voting in Central and Eastern Europe–may be difficult to follow, especially if you are not familiar with the second-order election model (SOEM) or our earlier research.

As you can read on my Projects page, this research is a follow-up effort to our earlier work that finds the SOEM does not hold well in eastern and central Europe. Unfortunately, we are having a data and small-n problem, which is leading us to have little to report. The project is on hold at least until later this year.

The Indie Kids Cry For Fed Help

The FCC is considering requiring boredbroadcasters dedicate a certain amount of airtime to the indie kids. The problems with this plan are too many to list (okay, here are some: what is independent music, how will this help independent music, stop whining about corporate radio, how would this possibly stop payola) but that won’t stop an FCC that is 99 percent clueless, and a music industry (including the so-called independents) that is 100 percent clueless.