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political science politics a blog on political science and politics skip to content political science politics a blog on political science and politics this blog has moved to http www kai arzheimer com blog after 12 months at wordpress com this blog has been integrated into my main site now it lives at http www kai arzheimer com blog kai my stuff political science science 1 comment 15 03 2009 1 minute dr huber s sandwich shop a friend send me this link to huber s sandwich emporium yesterday sandwich estimator huber s sandwiches is within walking distance of the university of vienna and we spent a dreamy 10 minutes imagining how slightly anxious researchers that suffer from correlated disturbances shuffle into that shop and ask for the massive 18 centimetre sandwich estimator if you think this is remotely funny your life must be pretty sad kai data and methods political science science 1 comment 07 03 2009 07 03 2009 1 minute contextual factors and the extreme right vote in western europe 1980 2002 over the last 7 years or so much of my work has focused on the question of why support for the extreme right is so unstable over time and so uneven across countries in a recent paper on contextual factors and the extreme right vote in western europe 1980 2002 i estimate a model that aims at providing a more comprehensive and satisfactory answer to this research problem by employing a broader database and a more adequate modelling strategy i e multi level modelling the main finding is that while immigration and unemployment rates are important their interaction with other political factors is much more complex than suggested by previous research moreover persistent country effects prevail even if a whole host of individual and contextual variables is controlled for replication data for this article is available from my dataverse the final version of the paper will appear in the april issue of the american journal of political science which is obviously great technorati tags extreme right radical right populist right western europe unemployment immigration agenda setting welfare state voting eurobarometer multi level analysis mla 1980 2002 kai article my stuff political science science leave a comment 05 03 2009 05 03 2009 1 minute turnout lakatos and case studies image via wikipedia a few months ago i published an article on inequality institutions and turnout in the british journal of politics and international relations that criticised an earlier piece in the same journal the journal has granted the original author the right to a reply which seems only fair i was however slightly surprised that i would have the right to respond to that reply where does it stop anyway a very short article with the fancy title lakatos reloaded has been submitted and accepted and will appear in one of the next issues of the bjpir technorati tags bjpir turnout lakatos british journal of politics and international relations institutions welfare state tscs case study kai data and methods my stuff political science science leave a comment 26 02 2009 26 02 2009 1 minute political science peer review survey 836 respondents and counting with about 100 new respondents yet another brilliant week for the political science peer review survey draws to a close while the snowball is still rolling and while we cannot know for certain because the survey is anonym ous after all we might soon reach a point of saturation i have received a number of very friendly replies from people who tell me that they have already heard about the survey once or twice from someone else the netherlands in particular seem to be a hotspot of peer review survey related activities you could guess that much from the distribution of our respondents while the us dominate the field as they should switzerland and the netherlands come an amazing 5th and 6th accurately reflecting the standing of these countries as social science strongholds technorati tags political science peer review survey netherlands respondents journals publications kai data and methods my stuff political science leave a comment 12 02 2009 03 03 2009 1 minute the alternative italian job disbanding the army that never was the guardian had a wonderful short article last week apparently italy invented a 300 000 strong army in the 1950s as part of the great game that was the cold war and apparently they assumed that the first thing the soviet spies would watch out for were neither tanks nor barrackes but an active bureaucracy something both the russians and the italians were familiar with so they created tonnes and tonnes of fake files relating to this fantasy army today these files clog the real army s warehouses since the imagined 3rd corps was disbanded in the 1970s it cannot declassify its files and while they are not declassified they cannot be destroyed se non e vero e molto ben trovato technorati tags italy army cold war fantasia borges kai politics leave a comment 08 02 2009 1 minute a good week for the peer review survey on monday the political science peer review survey had 506 respondents between tuesday and friday we sent out 1 100 new invitations five days and many contacts with helpful colleagues later the number stands at 626 feel free to join them kai data and methods my stuff political science science leave a comment 31 01 2009 1 minute political science peer review survey 500 respondents the title says it all yesterday respondents 500 506 took the political science peer review survey which is obviously great a neat detail is that so far more than 60 current or previous editors of political science journals have taken part in the survey tomorrow we will resume or email campaign aimed at those who have published in ssci journals over the last eight years or so to get even more people on board technorati tags political science peer review journals survey publications research ssci social science citation index kai data and methods my stuff political science science leave a comment 27 01 2009 27 01 2009 1 minute christian religiosity and voting for west european radical right parties does religion make you a better or worse human being more specifically does christian religiosity reduce or increase the likelihood of a radical extreme right vote in a west european context this is the question liz and i are trying to address in our latest paper on christian religiosity and voting for west european radical right parties there are a number of reasons why good christians could be more likely to vote for the right than agnostics american research starting in the 1940s has linked high levels of church attendance and a closed belief systems to support for rightism more over contemporary radical right parties try to frame the issue of immigration in terms of a struggle between christian western values and islam on the other hand many of the most radical parties e g the austrian fpö have anti clerical roots moreover the churches give support and shelter to refugees immigrants in many countries and some pro immigrant movements are inspired by christian values finally religious voters are often firmly tied to christian democratic parties and will therefore not be available for the radical right we develop a theoretical model that incorporates these mechanisms and use structural equation modelling to test this model in eight countries austria belgium denmark france italy switzerland the netherlands and norway as it turns out religious people do not differ from their more agnostic compatriots in terms of their attitudes towards immigrants they are however less likely to vote for the radical right because they often identify with christian democratic conservative parties the final version of the paper will appear in west european politics technorati tags extreme right radical right western europe religion religiosity islam structural equation modelling attitudes immigration immigrants kai article my stuff political science science leave a comment 20 01 2009 20 01 2009 1 minute update on the political science peer review survey on monday we started a new initiative to boost response to the political science peer review survey thanks to some very industrious research students we were able to identify about 21 000 individual authors who have published in social science citation index covered political science journals between 2000 and 2008 for about 8 000 of these the ssci lists their email addresses that s the em field in the ssci records and so we started contacting them and asked them to participate in the survey obviously some addresses are not longer valid because people have moved on to different places or have left academia altogether nonetheless i was slightly surprised by the rather poor quality of the address data supplied by thomson in some cases letters were missing whereas in other cases similar looking letters e g v and y had been confused this looks like either a weak ocr routine or an non native and underpaid data typing slave has been used overall we have contacted 962 people so far about 200 of our messages have bounced and we have 61 new responses to the survey assuming that without the mailout no one would have responded during these four days which brings us to a new total of 238 responses kai data and methods my stuff political science science leave a comment 15 01 2009 15 01 2009 1 minute posts navigation older posts this blog has moved new address http www kai arzheimer com blog this blog has moved new address http www kai arzheimer com blog create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed political science politics sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy political science politics subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email name website design a site like this with wordpress com get started