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Is that a gavel in your pants?: June 2010
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Is that a gavel in your pants? Rants and musings on peace and human rights issues, local, national, and international. Add one part seriousness, one part cynicism, and one part insanity. Stir vigorously. Learn more at my handy webhome. Money can't buy you class. I'm just back from a 12 day jaunt through Missouri for work (with a little fun tossed in), and am still going through reams of emails. However, let this entertain you in the meantime. Respectfully submitted by jterry. The More You Know. 21st Cent...
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Wandering through: April 2009
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009. It must be spring. This is a pretty time of year- you can see the signs and colors of spring in little things. A few weeks ago pine tree and I wandered into Boom Babies on Westcott street - normally it has a ton of overpriced clothes (sort of hippy like, some vintage and some stuff from India) but on this day there was a buzz of something frenetic and distinctly eostregen-y about it. Indeed, prom is just around the corner and the store was crammed. The scent was heavenly. The f...
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ACLED in R | Dart-Throwing Chimp
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Thoughtful analysis or bloviation? The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. Aka ACLED, produces up-to-date event data on certain kinds of political conflict in Africa and, as of 2015, parts of Asia. In this post, I’m not going to dwell on the project’s sources and methods, which you can read about on ACLED’s About page. In the 2010 journal article. That introduced the project, or in the project’s user’s guides. You can find the R script on GitHub, here. It should also be easy to adapt the part...
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Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet | Dart-Throwing Chimp
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Thoughtful analysis or bloviation? Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet. This blog has gone relatively quiet of late, and it will probably stay that way for a while. That’s partly a function of my personal life, but it also reflects a conscious decision to spend more time improving my abilities as a programmer. I want to get better at scraping, making, munging, summarizing, visualizing, and analyzing data. So, instead of contemplating world affairs, I’ve been starting to learn Python. Using questions on Stack Overflow.
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PM's Question Time: July 2013
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Don't let your technology dictate your theory. James Rosenau, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy. 1961 (6th Ed., 1968) p. 80 Rosenau is brilliant and I am not. But one can't help but ask the question that didn't occur to him: What if. Any of these things had changed? What if, for instance, broadcast technology DID involve a level of permanence similar to that of text? Would that change things? I actually doubt it has, all that much at least.) Too science-fictional, you say? Links to this post. My first in...
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Writings | Dart-Throwing Chimp
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Thoughtful analysis or bloviation? Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation. Lynne Rienner, 2010). Review in. Xavier Marquez’s blogged review here. PDF of Introduction here. ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS. 8220;Mining Texts to Efficiently Generate Global Data on Political Regime Types,” co-authored with Shahryar Minhas and Michael D. Ward,. 8220;Can Structural Conditions Explain the Onset of Nonviolent Uprisings? 8221; co-authored with Erica Chenoweth,. Journal of Conflict Resolution. Global Review of E...
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The Dilemma of Getting to Civilian Control | Dart-Throwing Chimp
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Thoughtful analysis or bloviation? The Dilemma of Getting to Civilian Control. A country can’t really qualify as a democracy without civilian control of its own security forces, but the logic that makes that statement true also makes civilian control hard to achieve, as events in Burkina Faso are currently reminding us. But the threat of a coup only enhances their bargaining power with elected rulers, and thus further constrains popular sovereignty. This dilemma is bedeviling politics in Burkina Faso rig...
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