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ACLED in R | Dart-Throwing Chimp
https://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/acled-in-r
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
https://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/be-vewy-vewy-quiet
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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politics in everything: trees in Africa | haba na haba
https://habanahaba.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/politics-in-everything-trees-in-africa
What is haba na haba? Politics in everything: trees in Africa. Along with Pretoria, cities across former British colonies in Africa bear the stamp of jacaranda including Blantyre in Malawi; Harare and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe; Nairobi and Nakuru in Kenya; and Kampala, Fort Portal and Mbale in Uganda, where they are associated with exam season. Coming at the end of the school term. Even in Kenya’s dusty little border town with Ethiopia, the jacaranda tree stands out as a marker of British presence. Diaspora a...
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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
https://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/the-dilemma-of-getting-to-civilian-control
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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Finding the Right Statistic | Dart-Throwing Chimp
https://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/finding-the-right-statistic
Thoughtful analysis or bloviation? Finding the Right Statistic. Earlier this week, Think Progress reported. That at least five black women have died in police custody in the United States since mid-July. The author of that post, Carimah Townes, wrote that those deaths “[shine] an even brighter spotlight on the plight of black women. What about black men and white men? And so on for other subsets of interest. Answering those questions would still get us only partway there, however. To make the compari...
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Fact Check: Are Military Coups Back in Vogue? | Dart-Throwing Chimp
https://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/fact-check-are-military-coups-back-in-vogue
Thoughtful analysis or bloviation? Fact Check: Are Military Coups Back in Vogue? In a recent piece. Joshua Kurlantzick claims to spot a resurgence of military coups. He writes:. In Latin America, Africa and Asia, coups, which had been a frequent means of changing governments during the Cold War, had become nearly extinct by the dawn of the new century. But over the past decade, the military has made power grabs in at least 12 states, from Guinea to Honduras, from Thailand to Madagascar. Again, no. Th...
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diaspora and development in Africa | haba na haba
https://habanahaba.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/diaspora-and-development-in-africa
What is haba na haba? Diaspora and development in Africa. On Wednesday, renowned economic historian Paul Tiyambe Zeleza came to give a talk. At Hampshire College. His talk drew on his latest book,. Africa’s Resurgence: Domestic, Global and Diaspora Transformations. The event was well attended and provoked a lot of interesting questions. The part that stuck with me most was Zeleza’s discussion of the growing importance of the diaspora in Africa’s future. By purchasing beautiful hand-dyed fabrics. Oumar Ba...
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Recommended Films and Videos Related to HIV/AIDS in Africa | haba na haba
https://habanahaba.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/recommended-films-and-videos-related-to-hivaids-in-africa
What is haba na haba? Recommended Films and Videos Related to HIV/AIDS in Africa. The troubles in zolokere. The films listed below are all documentaries, though there is also a feature-length film in isiZulu (with English subtitles) that could also be used. [1]. The Troubles in Zolokere. Hans Rosling: HIV new facts and stunning data visuals. Was co-produced by Product(RED) and could spark an interesting conversation about global awareness campaigns for AIDS, how these campaigns are funded and implemented...
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Monday mbalimbali | haba na haba
https://habanahaba.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/monday-mbalimbali-2
What is haba na haba? On filmmaker Akiro Kurasawa: Composing movement. Top leaders were informed of how dire Ebola situation was but held off on declaring an emergency–because politics. Survey of adjunct professors quantifies what we already know: it sucks. Anthology may well be the single most important thing to read this year out of that nebulous place recently known as Africa. Accidentally becomes perfect metaphor for America. College basketball players learn about stenography during March Madness.
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