Alexandre Afonso

Yannis Papadopoulos and me have a new article on the populist radical right and welfare state reforms in Switzerland, in which we compare the role of the Swiss SVP in pensions and unemployment reforms. A few highlights: Voters of populist radical right parties have different preferences in different social security schemes. Using data from the Swiss […]

The network above represents asylum applications in European countries in 2014 from the 20 main sources of asylum requests (source: Eurostat). The thickness of links represents the number of applications (only those above 1000 are represented to make the graph more readable) and the size of the nodes is proportional to the number of requests sent/received. […]

This is a map of donations to UK political parties in Q3 2015 using openly available data from the electoral commission. The size of the nodes and arrows corresponds to the size of donations; nodes are coloured by party (Red for Labour, Blue for the Tories, Orange for Libdems, Purple for UKIP, Yellow for SNP). There […]

This is a graph that I made for my class today on firms and business as political actors using data from the Center for Responsive Politics on donations to political actions committees by industry for the 2016 electoral cycle. The size of the arrows is proportional to the amount of money given, and the size of the […]

The map below uses a dataset put together originally in French by Mathieu Totet which I have translated using the Googletranslate function in google docs. Basically, it is a map of countries linked by their borders. Two countries are connected together if they share a border. The strength (weight) of the links is the length of […]

I have been asked to write a short piece for PS: Political Science and Politics on academic labour markets in Europe. This should be a longer, updated and more “respectable” version of the “drug gangs” piece. A draft of this piece is here. The article tries to give a short overview on the organisation of academic […]