• My book: Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences (Wiley; Amazon).
• 111th U.S. Senate ideal point estimates:
  • PDF, CSV last updated February 06 2010
• 111th U.S. House ideal point estimates:
  • PDF, CSV, last updated February 05 2010
  • scatterplot vs Obama vote share PDF SVG
• Next Australian election, Centrebet prob. of ALP win: 0.78 (2010-02-10, time-series)

From an e-mail that went out from Berkeley early today, has been passed through many hands in the political science world in the last 12 hours…

… I’m very sorry to have to report to you that Nelson Polsby passed away last night (Tuesday, Feb 6). Nelson died peacefully, at home, in his favorite chair with his wife, Linda and daughter Emily Polsby near his side.

I am trying to help Linda get the word out to colleagues who would want to know about this sad development, and wanted to let you know so that you might help spread the word in the political science community and in the Washington community as well. This is a great loss for Berkeley, for the University of California, and for those who study and those who love American politics.