Dimiter Toshkov

@dtoshkov.bsky.social

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comparative politics, European Union governance, research methods and design, data visualization, bureaucracy and public administration

Dissent and party positions on European integration
Blur and party positions on European integration
Salience and party positions on European integration
Party positions in the European Parliament 2024. Based on the CHES expert survey. Political space in the European Union 2024.
An interactive Shiny app on party positions using the CHES (Chapel HIll expert survey dataset).
Introduction to R for social scientists covering fundamentals, data wrangling, data analysis with statistical models, and data visualisation
Mean support for further European integration as a function of left-right self-placement, estimated with GAMs with smooth terms based on a shrinkage version of cubic regression splines. Shaded area shows the 95% confidence interval of the estimate of the mean. 2008 data is in red; 2023 data is in blue. Data: ESS Wave 4 (2008), Wave 11 (2023).
Average support for further European integration of citizens (blue line, based on GAM with cubic regression splines) and positive orientation towards European integration of political parties (black dots and red line, based on a local polynomial regression) as functions of left-right self-placement of the citizens and general left-right party positions as estimated by experts. Originally, party positions on European integration are scored on a 1-to-7 scale, which has been rescaled from 0 to 10 to match the public opinion data. Data: ESS Wave 11 (2023), CHES (2024).
excess mortality in the Netherlands, 2020-2021, per population group
population growth in the netherlands, 1990-2023, cbs data, non-migrant origin and western and non-western migrant origin, stacked bar graph
Distribution of asylum applications in the EU, adjusted for population
interactive dashboard of asylum migration statistics for the EU+ countries
Losing elections is associated with lower subjective health and well-being, especially for partisans
Share of people who find Immigration as one of the top two most important issues facing their country
political persuation
EU support as a function of left-right positions