Nachspiel at Polemarchus' » Front Nationale http://polemarchus.net A political science blog Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:32:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Picking apart a quantitative analysis http://polemarchus.net/2008/10/03/picking-apart-a-quantitative-analysis/ http://polemarchus.net/2008/10/03/picking-apart-a-quantitative-analysis/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:10:53 +0000 Sverre http://polemarchus.wordpress.com/?p=132 Kai Arzheimer posted on his blog a not yet published paper he wrote along with Elizabeth Carter of Keele University. The paper picks apart another paper on effects that contribute and don’t contribute to the electoral support of Le Pen’s Front Nationale in France, especially the volume of immigration.

My interest in the paper is not so much the substantial content as the nice reminder it was to me as an aspiring political scientist to still keep a critical eye towards papers that at first eyesight appear to have a thorough empirical basis. I don’t think I’d have noticed the flaws these two scientists did.

The paper is well worth a read for anyone interested in quantitative methods.

Read Kai Arzheimer’s post and both papers here.

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