Posts – Celâl Güney

An introduction to the synthetic control method in R

Comparative politics and comparative political economy rely extensively on comparative case studies. One can assuredly say that the beginnings of comparative politics were…

How to run multiple factor analysis in R

Political Economy

In economics and social sciences in general, factor analysis is a very useful set of methods used to analyze data for a wide variety of topics. The most well-known method is…

Post-election and panel Selects 2023 studies: what can we learn ?

Political economy

Political Science

This post is still in progress and will be updated

Economic stagnation in Switzerland: discussion of a growing debate

In the last years, recurring debates are emerging in Switzerland regarding the future of the country’s socio-economic model, showing a rising concern of the Swiss elites for…

Political Compass: what lies behind political science’s most famous graphs

Political Science

People who get lost or waste their time on the internet have surely seen the now famous “political compass” graphs, which have become a popular meme on the web. The irony…

Political Conflict and Inequality in Switzerland

Political Economy

How does social inequality affect political cleavages and political conflict? A recent trend in political economy has developed and built a tremendous analysis of the…

Web Scraping with R

Web scraping is nowadays rife in statistics and data science. This data collection method has become fashionable not only in computer and data science, but also in…

Political stability and political crises in Switzerland: empirical evidence

Political Economy

Switzerland is often considered as a successful and well-performing economy. The country typically ranks among the firsts in a wide variety of living standard measures such…

Income, education and voting outcome: a cross-sectional analysis of voting outcome in Switzerland

Political Economy

Two years ago, Piketty and his team published a fascinating book about the evolution of political cleavages in almost all democratic countries in the world and even beyond.…

From income brackets to income decile

Political Economy

To build their database on World political cleavages and inequality, Piketty and his team had to use electoral survey data. One problem with these sources is that they…

Sugar, Cochineal and power

Economic History

“The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an ‘immense collection of commodities’ […] Our investigation therefore begins with…

Crises & cycles

Political Economy

Economic History

One of the most striking phenomena in capitalist mode of production is certainly the recurring and systematic outbreak of financial and economic crises. Since the emergence…

Inikori about Slavery and the Industrial Revolution

Economic History

Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England written and published in 2002 by Joseph Inikori is certainly one of the major contributions on the role of Africans and…