The Weekly Standard makes a fact-free argument about political science. Here are some facts.
[caption id="attachment_33554" align="aligncenter" width="958"] Social science majors over time[/caption] Over
How Valve demonstrates democracy in the workplace
[caption id="attachment_3288" align="aligncenter" width="1075" special=""] (Valve)[/caption] Andrea Peterson has a
Three Notes on Ideas and Political Economy
"Dani Rodrik's piece":http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-economists-killed-policy-analysis-by-dani-rodrik on the reasons why political economy needs
Evolution, Pundits and Pollsters
"David Lazer":http://blogs.iq.harvard.edu/netgov/2012/11/the_extraordinary_delusions_of.html has an interesting piece on the topic. bq.
Geographic Data and the 2012 Election
Via both Cosma Shalizi's "Pinboard feed":http://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi and an email tip,
Symposium on Timothy Groseclose’s Arguments about Liberal Bias
The current issue of _Perspectives on Politics_ includes a symposium
Cognitive Democracy
Over the last couple of years, Cosma Shalizi and I
Mapping Public Opinion
"David Sparks":http://dsparks.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/isarithmic-maps-of-public-opinion-data/ has some very nice maps of public opinion
Blame the Sociologists
"Matthew Yglesias":http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/11/16/370007/the-social-graph-is-neither-social-nor-a-graph/ quotes Maciej Ceglowski "complaining":http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ about the concept of
Institutions and Politics
I'm teaching my Ph.D. level course on institutions and politics
Drezner vs. Slaughter
[Health warning: _very_ long post with extensive quotes, on issues
Review, Gary Herrigel’s Manufacturing Possibilities
I'm in Madrid at the moment for the annual meeting
Causality and political networks
Michael Heaney has put together an interesting "article/symposium of essays":http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mheaney/Causality_in_Political_Networks.pdf
SBE 2020 Proposals out
The NSF put out a call for white papers proposing
Studies Do Not Show
Let me just say - if it is not immediately
Homophily and Causation: Snarking on Journalists Edition
"Jonathan Chait":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/06/chait_on_noonan.html eat your heart out and watch Cosma Shalizi
Contagion and Homophily
Cosma Shalizi "illustrates":http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/656.html# how they can easily be confounded, even
La philosophie et l’expérience de la statistique bayésienne
There are a few things that the French love, but
Greg Mankiw Hearts Genetic Determinism
Greg Mankiw posts the above graph (courtesy of Economix) and
I won’t touch that except to say that I’d have paid a lot to see Wolfram and Jacques Derrida go one-on-one
Not having been able to get onto the new Wolfram
Suhay et al. on twin studies and genetic explanations
Most Monkey-Cagers will be aware that there is a minor
Who Cares Whether There’s An Electoral Realignment?
Political scientists' opinions on electoral realignments seem to "run the
Networks in politics
Via "Cosma Shalizi":http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/565.html , this is a nice "tool":http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/ for
More on Academic Attire
To follow up on Lee's post, here is Cosma Shalizi.
Scott Page in the New York Times
The interview is here. Here are links to Page's website