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  1. A map of donations to Dutch political parties, 2019-2021
    Mar 12, 2021 · original
  2. Italien – die wahre schwäbische Hausfrau Europas
    Jun 30, 2020 · original
    Die Debatte über die Schaffung europäischer Anleihen zur Bekämpfung der Coronakrise ist von Vorurteilen geprägt, die nicht der Realität entsprechen. Italien wird oft als zu verschwenderisch dargestellt, hat aber tatsächlich in den letzten 30 Jahren äußerst sparsam gewirtschaftet. Es zahlt heute allerdings immer noch für politische Fehler, die in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren gemacht wurden. Die Verhandlungen um eine europäische Lösung der Corona-bedingten Wirtschaftskrise hat die Euroländer erneut gespalten. Auf der einen Seite befürworten die von den Niederlanden angeführten Nordländer eine einmalige finanzielle Unterstützung in Form einmaliger Hilfskredite. Auf der anderen Seite streben die von der Epidemie besonders betroffenen Südländer, wie Italien oder Spanien, eine grundlegende Reform an, welche insbesondere die Bündelung der Staatsverschuldung, d.h. die Emission europäischer Anlei
  3. Do Southern Europeans work less than Northern Europeans?
    Jun 10, 2020 · original
    Elsevier Weekblad Recently, the Dutch right-wing magazine Elsevier used this cover to illustrate its stance on the rescue package devised by European governments to tackle the corona crisis. The header reads “not a cent more for Southern Europe”. The drawing is quite explicit: at the top, blond hard-working Northern Europeans. At the bottom, a hairy South European sitting at a café, a dark-haired woman tapping on her phone by the pool. Is this picture of lazy southerners and industrious northerners actually true? First, it’s important to say that this exercise is quite irrelevant for the issue of the rescue packages, debt mutualisation and other ways to tackle the crisis: Italy and Spain are so large that it doesn’t really matter if they “deserve” to be helped or not: if they face a liquidity crisis and go bankrupt, the damage will be so large for the Eurozone as a whole that Northern co
  4. The Coronacrisis and Southern European Welfare States
    May 29, 2020 · original
    Alexandre Afonso, Leiden University Written for The Future is Blue Newsletter The corona-crisis and the measures to slow the spread of the virus have led governments to put their economies in an “induced coma”. A large proportion of workers are either asked to work from home, or to put their economic activity on hold. The contraction in both demand and supply demands massive government intervention to support companies and workers. In Southern Europe, the crisis has revealed the fragilities of systems of income protection, but it could also constitute an opportunity to close longstanding gaps in social safety nets. Southern European economies are the ones that will likely be the most negatively affected by the corona crisis. The European commission’s economic forecast for 2020 projects a decline of -9.5% of GDP in Italy, -9.7% in Greece, -9.4% in Spain and -6.8% in Portugal. In contrast,
  5. Mapping the international mobility of political scientists
    Jun 2, 2019 · original
    Pippa Norris was kind enough to share an advance version of the dataset she collected on academic political scientists around the world, which will be presented for the 50th anniversary of the European Consortium for Political Research. The datasets contains lots of variables about the education, place of work and career of political scientists employed at universities around the world. Because it includes information on the country where political scientists were born, where they got their degrees and where they work at the time of the survey, it is also suitable to visualise the international mobility of political scientists. International mobility of political scientists The first graph shows a network of political scientists who work in another country as the one where they were born: current country is the target, and country of birth is the source. I have restricted the data to ind
  6. Um mapa das relações familiares no Governo de Antonio Costa
    Apr 6, 2019 · original
    Um mapa das relações familiares no Governo de Antonio Costa Nas ultimas semanas, os jornais relataram um numero impressionante de relações familiares no governo de António Costa: casais, primos, irmãos a assumir cargos públicos em vários ministérios e secretariados de estado. Este artigo no Jornal Economico aponto a existência de uma rede de 50 pessoas e 20 famílias, todas elas ligadas ao governo e ao partido socialista. Mesmo se o artigo do Jornal Economico é muito detalhado, é difícil ter uma vista global de esta rede. Isto é matéria ideal para uma análise de rede social (SNA). O mapa acima mostra a rede de relações familiares no governo de António Costa usando o artigo do Jornal Economico. O que fiz concretamente: fiz uma lista de indivíduos e entidades governativas mencionadas no artigo e o tipo de ligações entre elas. As ligações familiares (e em certos casos amigáveis) estão indica
  7. Mapping Preferences over Brexit in the House of Commons
    Mar 27, 2019 · original
    In the graph above (zoomable version here ), I have mapped the votes of British MPs in the 8 options given to them on March 27 (a couple of hours ago) in indicative votes. This is a 2-mode network linking MPs and options for Brexit. The network graph shows how different options are related to each other: they are closer if a greater number of MPs have voted for them. Their size shows the number of favourable votes for each option (none of them obtained a majority. The graph show the high level of polarisation over these different options, with two clear poles: the “Hard Brexit” pole with a number of MPs for whom the only option is No Deal, or a preferential trade arrangement, and the Soft Brexit-No Brexit pole, linking the Customs Union, Labour’s Plan and a Second Referendum/Revocation of article 50. The EFTA/EEA and Common Market 2.0 options link the two poles, but there seems to be ver
  8. Visualising the world’s 20 richest countries, 1800-2016 in one minute.
    Mar 20, 2019 · original
    I made this animation using John Burn-Murdoch’s code and data from the Maddison Project Database.
  9. Academic hierarchies in US political science
    Feb 11, 2019 · original
    In a number of recent projects (see e.g here ), I have been interested in the structure of the academic job market, how it is organised in different countries, and how it may shape the ideas that it produces (see here for a comparison of economists in the US and Germany). Something that we highlight in the latter paper is how concentrated and hierarchical the field of US economists is compared to Europe. Most top US economists are affiliated with a pretty small number of elite universities (Harvard, MIT, etc.). Is it different for other disciplines, for instance in political science? My hunch was that it isn’t. I have just come across this paper by Kim and Grofman published in January 2019 on the “Political Science 400”, looking at the top-cited political scientists currently employed in US universities. The online appendix has some interesting data on these 400 top US political scientis
  10. Assigning podcasts as assignments to students
    Jan 7, 2019 · original
    In my course on Global Challenges, I ask students to submit a policy podcast. Here are the guidelines that I give to students, and an example of what students have done. Purpose of the assignment The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate the ability to use the theoretical tools provided in the course by a) analysing a concrete global challenge, and b) formulating policy proposals drawing on the theories discussed in the module. We ask you to put together a policy proposal podcast dealing with one out of three policy problems. You are expected to carry out some level of research on the problem at hand and collect the relevant data, analyse the causes of the problem, and formulate policy proposals to deal with the problem, by drawing on the lectures, the seminar discussions, and the readings of the module. The policy proposals should be grounded in the theories discussed in

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