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Test Driving Sucks, Unless You Test Drive a Porsche

I test drove a 2006 Porsche Boxster (very similar to these) today. To say it was awesome would be a significant understatement. I even seriously considered buying it, although calls to NR and ZS brought me back to my more functional senses and saved me from serious driver’s license trouble. You should all go out [...]

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(Other People’s) Home Improvement: Building A Deck

In early May, I visited my friend NR. He and his wife (also a friend) just bought their first house. The house is very cool (e.g., old but recently renovated, one block from a lake, cool location, and more) but the deck was too small. As you can see in the first picture below, it [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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EP-EE Paper To Be Published

An article I have written with Nils Ringe has been accepted and will be published in European Union Politics‘ September 2006 issue. We will present this paper in Atlanta, Ga., for the 2006 SPSA conference and incorporating any changes (limiting them to extremely small changes, however) before the final draft of the manuscript is due [...]

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