Alexandre Afonso

Alexandre Afonso

Leiden University

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  • The Network Structure of the Panama Papers

    I have made the graph below with the data from the Panama papers made available two days ago. The original dataset was composed of entities, officers and intermediaries, and the links “subsidiary of”, etc. In order to make the network manageable (there were about 600’000 nodes), I have merged the nodes (entities, officers and intermediaries) by country. The Read.

  • Is there a trade-off between equality and immigration?

    Branko Milanovic has a piece in the FT (gated) where he advocates a form of differentiated citizenship as a way to make immigration more acceptable in rich countries. Milanovic argues that immigration is one of the most powerful mechanisms to reduce global income inequalities (by allowing inhabitants of poor countries to increase their income by moving to Read.

  • A global map of terrorist attacks, 2010-2014

    This map (large version can be accessed by clicking below) was made again using the Global Terrorism Database and Plotly, mapping terrorist attacks by the number of casualties until 2014 (before Paris and Brussels). The size of the bubbles corresponds to the number of people killed. Even if terrorist attacks in Europe of course leave a Read.

  • A map of terrorist attacks in Western Europe, 1970-now

    The global terrorism database at the university of Maryland has geocodes for all terrorist attacks around the world since 1970. Using plotly, the maps below show the location of terrorist attacks across decades; the size of the bubble indicate the number of people killed. A few remarks: the 1980s were by far the worst in Read.

  • EU-related referendums in EU countries, Norway and Switzerland, 1972-2015

    The Graph below shows all (I think) EU-related referendums held in EU countries, Norway and Switzerland since 1972. The data comes from various sources, notably a freedom of information request submitted to the Danish government and the Swiss statistical office. After I made the graph, I found that Qvortrup has a nice table as well, Read.

  • Gun ownership and homicides with firearms in the United States, 1991-2014

    The graph above shows the evolution of the homicide rate with firearms in the United States (Source; right axis) and data on gun ownership based on the general social survey (source; left axis). I have adjusted the axes. The correlation is quite striking, but of course as always the causality relationship is unclear. On the Read.

  • 2015 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 35,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many Read.

  • The Radical Right and the Welfare State

    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 Read.

  • Senders and receivers of asylum requests in European countries

    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. Read.

  • A Map of Political Party Funding in the United Kingdom

    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 Read.