Bribery in 2012
I have nothing to say.
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Trust and Gender in the Caucasus
I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago about interpersonal trust (using EBRD data). One of my arguments is that Azerbaijanis have very low interpersonal trust. After a conversation with a girlfriend, I had the idea to look at gender differences in trust as well. This is with CRRC data. First, without gender, you…
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Material Deprivation in 2012
A few years ago I wrote a piece about measuring poverty in the South Caucasus. That paper ended with 2010, but I was talking about it with someone yesterday, so I did some quick 2012 updates. As far as monthly household income in 2012, the distribution hasn’t changed much since that 2010 paper, but you…
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Attitudes toward IDPs in Azerbaijan
Sometimes sitting around in a coffeeshop brings interesting ideas. While sitting with Jale Sultanli today, she speculated that IDPs in Azerbaijan hold different attitudes toward Karabakh than other Azerbaijanis. I, always the nerd, said LET’S TEST THIS! So we did a series of analyses comparing IDPs and non-IDPs. Here is the first set of attitudes…
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What does the Internet think of the South Caucasus?
Well, really just Armenia and Azerbaijan… Googling for Georgia is too difficult. Inspired by this campaign that looked what Google automatically fills in for searches about men and women, I tried to do this with Armenia and Azerbaijan. I was logged out of Google, so these are the “natural” search results, not influenced by my…
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Demand for Democracy in Europe and Eurasia
Demand for democracy is one of my favorite outcome (dependent) variables. It isn’t perfect, but it is used frequently in public opinion surveys and has been shown to be correlated with all sorts of interesting things. In a transitional society, popular demand for democracy (or legitimation) takes the form of a choice between competing regime…
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#azvote13 hashtag updates
#azvote13 – mid-September to today #secki2013 – mid-September to today
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Shenanagins again and again
I’ve written a lot about “winning” hashtags and how this is a boastful tool for organizations. Here’s what I wrote yesterday on it. I’ve also written about trickery using Twitter. Here’s a good one. But now I have a new story… As I was going through the Azerbaijani election hashtags, I noticed something funny. This…
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We are young, heartache to heartache we stand; No promises, no demands #azvote13
Hashtags are an interesting 21st century phenomenon. Hashtags are keywords to organize information to describe a tweet and aid in searching (Small, 2011). Hashtags also take on a symbolic quality and perhaps are an example of metacommunication. When I post a picture of parents recording every minute of a kids’ holiday concert, complaining about how…
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5pm Oct 9 hashtag update
More to come, but… #azvote13 for last 48 hours Group 1, the largest group, was unnetworked people. Group 2 is a big cluster of foreign organizations and some individuals, Azerbaijani and foreign, associated with them. Seems like it was a lot of discussion and re-tweeting of Rebecca Vincent. Group 3 is pro-government. Group 4 is…