* Kite flying’s connection to hip hop and Caribbean culture. (Courtesy: Walter Thompson-Hernández and Tonje Thilesen/NYT)
* Germany is the largest producer of cheese in the EU. (Courtesy: Melissa Eddy/NYT)
Tag Archives: Europe
Things I Learned this Week
Among the things I learned this week:
* The deliciousness of Congolese coffee. (Courtesy: Caffe Vita)
* The deliciousness of Congolese coffee. (Courtesy: Caffe Vita)
* Chicken skins make for good polishing cloths. (Courtesy: Javier C. Hernandez/NYT)
* Britain hasn’t negotiated its own trade deal since 1973. (Courtesy: George Parker, Sarah Gordon, and Sarah Neville/FT)
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.