Alexandre Afonso

Alexandre Afonso

Leiden University

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  • Who funds US political parties?

    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 Read.

  • A Network Map of the World

    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 Read.

  • A social network of the Paris terrorists

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    Like everyone else, I have been following the aftermath of the terrible Paris attacks one week ago. Besides, I am getting increasingly interested in social network analysis, and I read too many crime novels. Combining these things, I have drawn a network combining the different bits and pieces of information available in the media about the Read.

  • Terrorisme et asile: un vieux débat

    C’est tout de même frappant de constater que les débats actuels sont toujours semblables à ceux du passé. Journal de Genève, 23 Juillet 1980. Read.

  • Varieties of Academic Labour Markets in Europe

    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 Read.

  • A map of French terrorist organisations since 1970

    Drawing on the Global terrorism Database, I have drawn a network of terrorist organisations having acted on French soil since 1970. The graph above is a two-mode network Organisations x Type of Terrorist Act. The Size of each organisation corresponds to the number of terrorist acts committed, and the size of links corresponds to the Read.

  • Paris Attacks: Some Data in Perspective

    After the horrible events that happened yesterday in Paris and the mass of instant analyses by more or less reliable experts that swamped the news media, I started wondering whether there was some data out there to put these events in perspective. I had a look at the Global Terrorism Database at the University of Read.

  • Book Review: The Right and the Welfare State

    Carsten Jensen (2014) The Right and the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 176 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-967841-9 Book review forthcoming in Czech Sociological Review The Right and the Welfare State addresses the behaviour of right-wing governments in welfare state reforms, particularly in the domains of health and unemployment. In this book, Carsten Jensen challenges two Read.

  • Support for the Swiss anti-immigration party SVP and actual share of immigrants

    In the graph above I have plotted the share of immigrants in Swiss cantons and the percentage of votes for the Swiss People’s Party in the Swiss federal elections of October 16. The relationship is similar as the one we could observe for the anti-immigration referendum earlier. The fewer migrants there are, the more people Read.

  • Education and GDP per capita

    The graph above plots GDP per capita in 2014 in current USD (Data from the world bank) and average years of schooling per country from the Barro and Lee dataset. There is an interactive version of the graph here where you can select groups of countries. As the plot shows, income per capita of course increases Read.