Poli sci plagiarism update Andrew Gelman - November 8, 2010 A recent story about academic plagiarism spurred me to some
Did Controversial Roll Call Votes Doom the Democrats? Eric McGhee - November 5, 2010 Did Obama's ambitious agenda -- specifically, health care reform, the
For the Next Time Someone Mentions Our “Center-Right Nation” John Sides - October 13, 2010 "Gallup #1":http://www.gallup.com/poll/143636/Americans-Choose-Middle-Extremes-Gov-Functions.aspx: bq. Record- or near-record-high percentages of Americans are
More on the Irrelevance of Political (and Social) Science John Sides - September 16, 2010 "Daniel Ziblatt":http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dziblatt/ sends along this piece (pdf), "Can Social Science
Explaining Opposition to the “Ground Zero Mosque” John Sides - September 9, 2010 This is a guest post from "Jeremy Menchik":www.polisci.wisc.edu/menchik, a doctoral
My First Attempt at Potpourri Joshua Tucker - August 9, 2010 * "Gary King":http://gking.harvard.edu/ raised the following point on Facebook yesterday:
Stoners in academia and the media Andrew Gelman - July 9, 2010 I followed John's link entitled, "Glenn Beck’s “university” features a
The Best Three Years of My Life…. Joshua Tucker - May 25, 2010 There's an interesting op ed in the NY Times today
What Are the Hard Problems in the Social Sciences? John Sides - April 15, 2010 That was the title of a recent symposium at Harvard,
44% of Scott Brown Voters Disagree with Scott Brown John Sides - January 24, 2010 A nice tidbit from the Washington Post/KFF/Harvard poll of MA