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Welcome to Martin Elff's website!
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About Me
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My name is Martin Elff, I am a political scientist with research interests
in political behaviour, political sociology, comparative politics, and the methodology of
political and social sciences. Besides teaching, research, academic
governance, I also wrote some software, mostly in *R*.
Since 2015 I am a `professor of political sociology at Zeppelin
University `__
(Friedrichshafen, Germany).
You can also find me here:
- `@melff.bsky.social `__
- `@martin_elff@science.social `__
- `@elff@fosstodon.org `__
- Twitter: `@martin\_elff `__
- Github: http://github.com/melff
- ORCID: |ORCID ID icon| `0000-0001-9032-9739 `__
- Web of Science: `J-1604-2019 `__
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Selected publications
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.. bibsource:: ./publications.bib
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:keys: elff.et.al:multilevel.improving,
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:keys: elff:data.management,
elff.ziaja:democracy.indicators,
elff:dynamic.model.coded.texts,
elff:divisions.positions.voting,
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Selected working papers
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.. bibsource:: ./papers.bib
.. bibliography::
:keys: elff:valence.position.both,
dassonneville.elff.marcinkiewicz:transformation.religious,
rajski.elff:context.pid,
elff:much.ado,
elff:finite.mixtures.tactical.voting,
elff:testing.constant.probability,
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Software
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There are a few software packages I wrote for helping me in my research, creating
this website, or which I just wrote for fun and out of curiosity (however I
have only little time for this).
On this website you find information about the following *R* packages in
particular:
- `R package "memisc": Tools for Managing Survey Data and Creating Tables of Estimates and Data Summaries `__
- `R package "mclogit": Multinomial Logit Models, with or without Random Effects or Overdispersion `__
- `R package "munfold": Multidimensional Metric Unfolding `__
- `R package "RKernel": Yet another R Kernel for Jupyter `__
- :doc:`software/mpred`
- :doc:`software/manifestos`
- :doc:`software/iimm`
- :doc:`software/EMfit`
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Research interests
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My are research interests in the
following areas:
- Political behaviour, in particular electoral behaviour and its relation
with social structure. More specifically:
- class voting
- religious voting
- long term change
- the influence of parties' (changing) positions
- with a focus on Germany
- with a focus on (Western) Europe
- Reconstructing the political positions of parties
- Quantitative methods of the social sciences
- Multilevel modelling
- Modelling of qualitative/categorical dependent variables
- Cross-level inference
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Teaching subjects
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Throughout my career I :doc:`taught a couple of subjects `, including
- Political sociology and political behaviour
- Introduction to political sociology
- Attitude formation and public opinion
- Electoral behaviour
- Comparative politics
- German politics
- West European politics
- Parties and party systems
- Socials science research methods
- Research design and methods (at various levels)
- Data analysis (at various levels)
- Data analysis and graphics with *R*
- Mathematical tools for social scientists
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Recent posts
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About this website
^^^^^^^^
This site is built with `Sphinx`_, a generator for documentation and static
websites, using a heavily modified variant of the `insipid theme`_. The
website builds on flat files in `restructured text`_ format and in some
instances on `Jupyter`_ notebooks.
Because it is built with Sphinx, there is a bit of `Python`_ programming
involved in this website. In particular I wrote a few Python modules that
extend Sphinx for the purposes of this website, e.g.
- attaching files to webpages
- creating bibliographies and linking publication details from `BibTeX files`_
- improving the navigation of the site
- providing an infrastructer for blog posts (with much inspiration from `ABlog`_)
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blog
about
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.. |ORCID ID icon| image:: https://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16.png
.. |R| replace:: *R*
.. _R: http://www.r-project.org
.. _Sphinx: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/
.. _Python: https://www.python.org/
.. _Jupyter: https://jupyter.org/
.. _LaTeX: https://www.latex-project.org/
.. _TeX: https://www.tug.org/whatis.html
.. _insipid theme: https://insipid-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/
.. _dvisvgm: https://dvisvgm.de/
.. _BibTeX files: http://www.bibtex.org/Format/
.. _restructured text: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html
.. _ABlog: https://ablog.readthedocs.io/