In Memoriam: Bruce Russett
Russett helped the world understand the democratic peace.
The World Bank and IMF say they’ll do more to address climate change
Staff in the field are reporting firsthand how climate disasters are hurting vulnerable countries. That may help shift institutional policies.
Bolsonaro has tried to load the dice for today’s election in Brazil
Will the government’s cash handouts and changes to the rules boost his reelection chances?
Biden will inherit Trump’s trade war with China. What do Americans really think about tariffs?
New research suggests that free trade may be far more popular than many politicians want to believe.
No, Trump can’t count on a hawk’s advantage in making peace with North Korea
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You’d think dictators would avoid elections. Here’s why they don’t.
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How to get reelected if you are an Iranian MP
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Why academics can’t get beyond moderates and radicals
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Why academics can't get beyond moderates and radicals
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Can there be an ethical Middle East political science?
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Was Obama wrong to withdraw troops from Iraq?
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Sweden’s Feminist Initiative has lessons for social movements elsewhere
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Ukraine-Russia: A battle of futures
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Doing well by doing good: foreign aid improves opinions of the U.S.
Joshua Tucker: The following is a guest post from political scientists Benjamin
Why it matters that more women present at conferences
For our fourth installment in the gender gap symposium (see here, here, and
The NSA and Internet balkanization
Kevin Drum "argues":http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/nsa-surveillance-foreign, _contra_ John Naughton and James Fallows, that
The Political Science of PRISM and International Privacy
The "Financial Times":http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dd7dd97c-eed5-11e2-b8ec-00144feabdc0.html has an editorial warning gravely that the
Conservatives for Better Childcare
This bit in a "New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/world/europe/merkel-offers-her-election-manifesto.html about Angela Merkel's
The Purest Political Economist of Them All: Albert Hirschman’s Legacy
Continuing our collaboration with the APSA Political Economy newsletter, today
Whither Nation Building? Lessons for Iraq, Syria, and Mali
The following guest post is provided by George Washington University
Is There a Gender Kuznets Curve?
Joshua Eastin and Aseem Prakash find support for the idea
Can Peace Be Engineered? Institutions, Political Inclusion, and Ethnic Conflict
Continuing our on going partnership with the Comparative Democratization Section of
Cross-National Diffusion of Protest
Why does protest that starts in one country sometime spread
Understanding Post-Communist Political Economy II
As promised, here is the second part of Professor Andrew
Understanding Post-communism: From the politics of economic reform to the functioning of political economies
With everything going on in Russia, I thought it might
Ethical Challenges of Embedded Experimentation
Continuing our series of articles from the American Political Science
Why Now? Micro Transitions and the Arab Uprisings
We are pleased to welcome the American Political Science Association's
Institutions and Politics
I'm teaching my Ph.D. level course on institutions and politics
How Large is Egypt’s Potential “Religious Right”?
Political scientists "Drew Linzer":http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~dlinzer/ and "Lisa Blaydes":http://www.stanford.edu/~blaydes/ have "an article
State of the World: Will 2011 be the next 1989?
I'm guessing that by now most readers of politics related
The Looks of a Winner
A new article in World Politics by Chappell Lawson, Gabriel
Showing the Spread of MFN Agreements
"David Lazer":http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2010/06/the_emergence_of_international_order.html blogs an animation by Sune Lehmann of his
Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel?
bq. Despite its fundamental role in legitimizing the modern state
Unipolarity is what states make of it
"Justin Logan":http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/are_we_doomed.php and "Matt Yglesias":http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/are_we_doomed.php ask a question. American policymakers