Urban Demographics

This blog and my Twitter will be less active in the next few days. I'm on my way to California to have a few weeks off from work a...

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Here is a great seminar by  Steven Levitsky  talking about his recent book on how democracies die. I cannot emphasize enough the importance...

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I'm very glad   and relieved   to share the news that I became a doctor last week!  It might take some time for the university to publi...

Working from the Oxford Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera these days. Getting ready to my PhD defence and the  seminar at UCL next w...