29 Apr
2003
29 Apr
'03
10:15 p.m.
Here's our abstract. Any comments are greatly appreciated.
Best,
Dan and Colin
Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Population Density Affects Local
Participation
Dan Hopkins and Colin Moore
Drawing on a survey of 29,000 Americans from communities throughout the United
States, this paper expands on J. Eric Oliver's (2000) argument that living in a
larger city decreases the probability that one will engage in a variety of
forms of local political participation. By shifting the causal emphasis from a
city¡¯s size to its population density, we illustrate that the effects of an
individual¡¯s environment depend crucially on the kind of participation in
question. As population density increases, an individual is 2.7% less likely
to attend a public meeting, but 2.0% more likely to participate in a
demonstration, boycott, or protest.
30 Apr
30 Apr
10:11 p.m.
Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Population
Density Affects Local
Participation
Maybe, the main title should have "political participation" in it? e.g.,
Political Participation in Crowded Cities.
Drawing on a survey of 29,000 Americans from
communities throughout the
United
States, this paper expands on J. Eric Oliver's (2000) argument that living in
a
larger city decreases the probability that one will engage in a variety of
forms of local political participation.
The beginning of the abstract could be a bit more spiced up.
By shifting the causal emphasis from
a
city¡¯s size to its population density,
It's not really clear what this means.
we illustrate that the effects of an
individual¡¯s environment depend crucially on the kind of participation in
question. As population density increases, an individual is 2.7% less likely
to attend a public meeting, but 2.0% more likely to participate in a
demonstration, boycott, or protest.
Probably, this should come first and get more emphasized.
Kosuke
2 May
2 May
8:39 p.m.
New subject: [gov2001-l] ternary diagram
does anybody know how to trisect the triangle in ternary() to produce a
graph akin to that in the lecture notes or gary's article on simulation
(with lines dividing the area into three parts)?
thanks,
s t a n
****************************
Stanislav Markus
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
Department of Government
e: smarkus(a)fas.harvard.edu
t: 617.513.5407
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Subject: Re: [gov2001-l] Our Abstract
Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Population
Density Affects Local
Participation
Maybe, the main title should have "political participation" in it? e.g.,
Political Participation in Crowded Cities.
Drawing on a survey of 29,000 Americans from
communities throughout
the
United
States, this paper expands on J. Eric Oliver's (2000) argument that
living in
a
larger city decreases the probability that one will engage in a
variety of
forms of local political participation.
The beginning of the abstract could be a bit more spiced up.
By shifting the causal emphasis from
a
city¡¯s size to its population density,
It's not really clear what this means.
we illustrate that the effects of an
individual¡¯s environment depend crucially on the kind of
participation in
question. As population density increases, an
individual is 2.7% less
likely
to attend a public meeting, but 2.0% more likely to participate in a
demonstration, boycott, or protest.
Probably, this should come first and get more emphasized.
Kosuke
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New subject: [gov2001-l] ternary diagram
there's some Gauss code at my web site to do this. even tho you probably
don't know Gauss, you can probably figure it out enough to port it over.
Gary
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Stanislav Markus wrote:
does anybody know how to trisect the triangle in
ternary() to produce a
graph akin to that in the lecture notes or gary's article on simulation
(with lines dividing the area into three parts)?
thanks,
s t a n
****************************
Stanislav Markus
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
Department of Government
e: smarkus(a)fas.harvard.edu
t: 617.513.5407
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 10:12 PM
To: cdmoore(a)fas.harvard.edu
Cc: gov2001-l(a)fas.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [gov2001-l] Our Abstract
Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Population
Density Affects Local
Participation
Maybe, the main title should have "political participation" in it? e.g.,
Political Participation in Crowded Cities.
Drawing on a survey of 29,000 Americans from
communities throughout
the
United
States, this paper expands on J. Eric Oliver's (2000) argument that
living
in
a
larger city decreases the probability that one will engage in a
variety of
forms of local political participation.
The beginning of the abstract could be a bit more spiced up.
By shifting the causal emphasis from
a
city¡¯s size to its population density,
It's not really clear what this means.
we illustrate that the effects of an
individual¡¯s environment depend crucially on the kind of
participation in
question. As population density increases, an
individual is 2.7% less
likely
to attend a public meeting, but 2.0% more likely to participate in a
demonstration, boycott, or protest.
Probably, this should come first and get more emphasized.
Kosuke
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10:30 p.m.
New subject: [gov2001-l] ternary diagram
Also, check out ternaryplot() in vcd library which comes with some grid
line options. You can always modify the code and add lines, etc.
Kosuke
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Gary King wrote:
there's some Gauss code at my web site to do this. even tho you probably
don't know Gauss, you can probably figure it out enough to port it over.
Gary
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Stanislav Markus wrote:
does anybody know how to trisect the triangle in
ternary() to produce a
graph akin to that in the lecture notes or gary's article on simulation
(with lines dividing the area into three parts)?
thanks,
s t a n
****************************
Stanislav Markus
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
Department of Government
e: smarkus(a)fas.harvard.edu
t: 617.513.5407
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Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Population
Density Affects Local
Participation
Maybe, the main title should have "political participation" in it? e.g.,
Political Participation in Crowded Cities.
Drawing on a survey of 29,000 Americans from
communities throughout
the
United
States, this paper expands on J. Eric Oliver's (2000) argument that
living
in
a
larger city decreases the probability that one will engage in a
variety of
forms of local political participation.
The beginning of the abstract could be a bit more spiced up.
By shifting the causal emphasis from
a
city¡¯s size to its population density,
It's not really clear what this means.
we illustrate that the effects of an
individual¡¯s environment depend crucially on the kind of
participation in
question. As population density increases, an
individual is 2.7% less
likely
to attend a public meeting, but 2.0% more likely to participate in a
demonstration, boycott, or protest.
Probably, this should come first and get more emphasized.
Kosuke
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3 May
3 May
10:17 p.m.
New subject: [gov2001-l] ternary diagram
here's how to do it, should somebody else need it (X is a matrix with 3
columns):
library(vcd)
ternaryplot(X, dimnames = c("", "", ""), grid = F, main =
"")
segments(.5, 0, .5, .3)
segments(.25, 0.43, .5, .3)
segments(.75, 0.44, .5, .3)
****************************
Stanislav Markus
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
Department of Government
e: smarkus(a)fas.harvard.edu
t: 617.513.5407
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From: Kosuke Imai [mailto:kimai@fas.harvard.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 10:31 PM
To: Gary King
Cc: Stanislav Markus; gov2001-l(a)fas.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [gov2001-l] ternary diagram
Also, check out ternaryplot() in vcd library which comes with some grid
line options. You can always modify the code and add lines, etc.
Kosuke
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Gary King wrote:
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there's some Gauss code at my web site to do this. even tho you
probably
don't know Gauss, you can probably figure it out
enough to port it
over.
Gary
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Stanislav Markus wrote:
> does anybody know how to trisect the triangle in ternary() to
produce a
> graph akin to that in the lecture notes or
gary's article on
simulation
> (with lines dividing the area into three parts)?
>
> thanks,
> s t a n
>
> ****************************
>
> Stanislav Markus
> Ph.D. Candidate
>
> Harvard University
> Department of Government
>
> e: smarkus(a)fas.harvard.edu
> t: 617.513.5407
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gov2001-l-admin(a)fas.harvard.edu
> [mailto:gov2001-l-admin@fas.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of
> kimai(a)fas.harvard.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 10:12 PM
> To: cdmoore(a)fas.harvard.edu
> Cc: gov2001-l(a)fas.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [gov2001-l] Our Abstract
>
>
>
> > Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Population Density Affects
Local
> > Participation
>
> Maybe, the main title should have "political participation" in it?
e.g.,
>
> Political Participation in Crowded Cities.
>
> > Drawing on a survey of 29,000 Americans from communities
throughout
> the
> > United
> > States, this paper expands on J. Eric Oliver's (2000) argument
that
> living in
> > a
> > larger city decreases the probability that one will engage in a
> variety of
> > forms of local political participation.
>
> The beginning of the abstract could be a bit more spiced up.
>
> > By shifting the causal emphasis from
> > a
> > city¡¯s size to its population density,
>
> It's not really clear what this means.
>
> > we illustrate that the effects of an
> >
> > individual¡¯s environment depend crucially on the kind of
> participation in
> > question. As population density increases, an individual is 2.7%
less
> likely
> >
> > to attend a public meeting, but 2.0% more likely to participate in
a
demonstration, boycott, or protest.
Probably, this should come first and get more emphasized.
Kosuke
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2 May
2 May
9:47 p.m.
sorry for the delay. i'm just back in town. more below...
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 cdmoore(a)fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Here's our abstract. Any comments are greatly appreciated.
Best,
Dan and Colin
Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Population Density Affects Local
Participation
this title is the topic. instead, make it your point. every sentence you
put in your paper, especially the title, should make your point. so say
how pop density affects local participation.
Dan Hopkins and Colin Moore
Drawing on a survey of 29,000 Americans from communities throughout the
United States, this paper expands on J. Eric Oliver's (2000) argument
that living in a larger city decreases the probability that one will
engage in a variety of forms of local political participation. By
shifting the causal emphasis from a city¡¯s size to its population
density, we illustrate that the effects of an individual¡¯s environment
depend crucially on the kind of participation in question. As
population density increases, an individual is 2.7% less likely to
attend a public meeting, but 2.0% more likely to participate in a
demonstration, boycott, or protest.
not bad, but it is not entirely clear to me what contribution you're
making. so its not size, its density. does that mean that Oliver is
using something like square feet or number of peoploe and you're using
people/sq feet? is this important? why should we care? would Oliver
care that you have a different result? was Oliver wrong in some way?
tell me who's mind you're going to change about what..
i take it that the central issue here that oliver found is that big cities
reduce participation. that is important of course to political
scientists, and its pretty clear. how does your result differ and what
does it tell us?
Gary
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