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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.

Blogs As Data Sources

Super short post, so foul on my part.

A friend (NR) recently told me about MoodViews, which uses pulls various bits from blogs and aggregates them. I have not played with the site too much, but it seems interesting (but probably not much beyond that since it is so limited). From what I have linked through, it focuses on pulling the current state (e.g., happy) from bloggers and tracks changes in those states.

If this up your alley, it is worth a five-minute poke through.