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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ <h1>Burkina Faso’s Electoral Proximity</h1>
        x = &quot;Year&quot;, 
        y = &quot;Electoral Proximity (Cox, 1997)&quot;) +
   theme_classic()</code></pre>
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+<p><img src="/posts/cox_proximity_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-4-1.png" width="672" /></p>
 <p>Interesting! Following independence, BK had concurrent elections which became progressively less concurrent until 2015, when they aligned once again. I’m going to plot a few more countries and see if I find any more intresting patterns.</p>
 <p>In the meantime, feel free to check out the related code for this post <a href="https://github.com/tjbrailey/Functions">here</a>. Please leave any comments and feedback in the “Issues” section of GitHub.</p>
 <p>Thanks for reading!</p>

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+I was fortunate enough to have been invited into the political science honors program at UC San Diego. As part of the program, I am required to write a thesis on a topic of my choosing. The program consists of a weekly three-hour seminar, plus regular meeting with an advisor, and I will have two quarters to complete the paper. 
+
+I am incredibly lucky to have Professors Kaare Strom and Daniel Butler leading the seminar, and [Professor Gareth Nellis](garethnellis.github.io) as my thesis advisor. I have looked up to these professors throughout my undergraduate career and cannot wait to work with them. 
+
+# Focus
+
+My thesis will focus on power-sharing. My central argument is that existing studies of power-sharing use different conceptualizations and measurements which hinder cumulative findings. As the literature stands, we cannot really understand the effectiveness of power-sharing as it relates to prolonged peace and democratization. Moreover, most studies use the two aforementioned dependent variables to establish power-sharing's effectiveness, which is limiting. I propose a disaggregated approach to studying power-sharing. By studying the components of power-sharing arragements, we may better understand it's effectiveness as well as the mechanisms which drive its success and failure. I also intend to expand how we evaluate power-sharing by adding an additional dependent variable---social trust---into the mix.
+
+In addition to measuring the substantive effects of one component of power-sharing (to be determined), I also plan on creating an ontology of the current conceptions of power-sharing to see if and where these components overlap. 
+
+I am currently in the literature review portion of the project, and am diving into the power-sharing literature, case-study analyises, and am brushing up on statistics and econometrics.
+
+More to follow! 
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+<p>I was fortunate enough to have been invited into the political science honors program at UC San Diego. As part of the program, I am required to write a thesis on a topic of my choosing. The program consists of a weekly three-hour seminar, plus regular meeting with an advisor, and I will have two quarters to complete the paper.</p>
+<p>I am incredibly lucky to have Professors Kaare Strom and Daniel Butler leading the seminar, and <a href="garethnellis.github.io">Professor Gareth Nellis</a> as my thesis advisor. I have looked up to these professors throughout my undergraduate career and cannot wait to work with them.</p>
+<div id="focus" class="section level1">
+<h1>Focus</h1>
+<p>My thesis will focus on power-sharing. My central argument is that existing studies of power-sharing use different conceptualizations and measurements which hinder cumulative findings. As the literature stands, we cannot really understand the effectiveness of power-sharing as it relates to prolonged peace and democratization. Moreover, most studies use the two aforementioned dependent variables to establish power-sharing’s effectiveness, which is limiting. I propose a disaggregated approach to studying power-sharing. By studying the components of power-sharing arragements, we may better understand it’s effectiveness as well as the mechanisms which drive its success and failure. I also intend to expand how we evaluate power-sharing by adding an additional dependent variable—social trust—into the mix.</p>
+<p>In addition to measuring the substantive effects of one component of power-sharing (to be determined), I also plan on creating an ontology of the current conceptions of power-sharing to see if and where these components overlap.</p>
+<p>I am currently in the literature review portion of the project, and am diving into the power-sharing literature, case-study analyises, and am brushing up on statistics and econometrics.</p>
+<p>More to follow!</p>
+</div>
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+---
+title: "Senior Thesis: Ontology"
+author: "Tom Brailey"
+date: "2020-01-05"
+categories: ["R"]
+tags: ["senior thesis", "segmental autonomy", "power sharing"]
+---
+
+```{r setup, include=FALSE}
+knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
+```
+
+Progress is slow but rewarding. I have a skeleton of my thesis and am working dilligently to fill out the rest of it. 
+
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+---
+title: "Senior Thesis: Ontology"
+author: "Tom Brailey"
+date: "2020-01-05"
+categories: ["R"]
+tags: ["senior thesis", "segmental autonomy", "power sharing"]
+---
+
+
+
+<p>Progress is slow but rewarding. I have a skeleton of my thesis and am working dilligently to fill out the rest of it.</p>
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+I am incredibly lucky to have Professors Kaare Strom and Daniel Butler leading the seminar, and Professor Gareth Nellis as my thesis advisor.</description>
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