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Statistics, Politics and Policy
@sppjournal.bsky.social
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Applying statistical analysis to (public) policy:
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🔹 (Geo-)political Influence and Military Capabilities
July 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Their approach offers new methodological insights and supports a more evidence-based foundation for defense budget allocation.

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A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Determinants Influencing Military Expenditure: New Methodological Insights and Implications for Defence Budget Allocation
The aim of this article is to conduct a meta-analysis of existing research on the determinants of military expenditure. Using data from an initial screening of 179 studies, 15 studies were selected fo...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Their findings reveal a concentration of violence in the northeast and a 42% chance of at least one fatality per violent event - underlining the urgency for targeted interventions and evidence-based policy.

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Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Violent Conflict and Fatality in Nigeria: A Point Process Modeling with SPDE Approach
For many decades, Nigeria has been plagued by a consistently high rate of violent events, resulting in countless fatalities and the displacement of citizens. This study aimed to model the spatio-tempo...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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To enable officials and governments to comprehensively measure disease intensity, they develop their model from various US-American economic and pandemic data series.

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Pandemic Intensity Estimation using Dynamic Factor Modeling
Individual and policy reactions to the coronavirus pandemic had disparate impacts on viral transmission and were heterogeneous in their influence on economic activity and personal outcomes (Kerpen, Ph...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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In detail, he suggests allocating a state’s electoral votes to each county’s plurality winner, proportional to voter turnout in that county.
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A State-Level Policy Change That Would Revitalize the Electoral College
The academic literature is rife with analyses of the US Electoral College’s flaws, but proposals to improve the system often rely upon old ideas. For example, the idea of replacing the Electoral Colle...
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May 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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May 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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💡 As we step into 2025, we are also excited to share that SPP is transitioning to Gold Open Access
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, ensuring that all articles are freely available under a Creative Commons license! We’d like to thank our subscribers who made this transformation possible.
May 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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At the same time, gross fixed capital formation has a moderately negative effect.

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Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of Macroeconomic Variables in Ghana
This study analyzed the impact of macroeconomic variables (manufacturing, real exchange rate, government expenditure, and gross fixed capital formation) on GDP growth in Ghana. Utilizing secondary dat...
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March 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Great Powers Competition and Increasing Entropy in the Local Media Across Africa and Asia
The current United States National Defense Strategy prioritizes strategic competition with Russia and China, whereas for the previous two decades, the priority was counter-terrorism. This research aim...
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March 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Chellai Fatih of Université Ferhat Abbas, Sétif researches this interesting topic in a time where the transition toward sustainability becomes more central by the day.

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Hybrid Modeling Techniques for Municipal Solid Waste Forecasting: An Application to OECD Countries
Accurate forecasting of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation is critical for effective waste management, given the rising volumes of waste posing environmental and public health challenges. This stu...
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March 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Analyzing state as well as provincial elections, these findings offer new insights into the cost of ruling and the dynamics of electoral competition.

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A Geometric Model of Elections in Five Federal Democracies
In an analysis of 1,825 state or provincial election outcomes in five federal democracies the rate of decay of incumbency ( K ) serves to partition the distribution of the vote for the incumbent party...
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March 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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His comparative analysis with the Chapel Hill Expert Survey and the Manifesto data set raises questions about the validity of VAAs for longitudinal analyses of party positions. Particularly since 2009, design changes impacted the measurement opportunities.

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Party Proximities in Voting Advice Applications – Identifying Structural Breaks in Data from the German Wahl-O-Mat
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs), such as the German Wahl-O-Mat (WOM), have been examined extensively by researchers in various ways. Here, a subset of research uses data from the Wahl-O-Mat to inves...
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March 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM