Why Do Policy Makers Hate International Relations Scholarship?
Paul Avey and Michael Desch have a "forthcoming article":http://www3.nd.edu/~carnrank/PDFs/What%20Do%20Policymakers%20Want%20from%20Us_MC.pdf in
Correlation is Not Causation – Really Big Data Edition
Via Cosma in "comments at the other place I hang
Potpourri
* "What drives the price of gold?":http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/treasuries-tips-and-gold-wonkish/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto * "The half-life
Voices from Bosnia and Serbia on the Arrest of Mladic
As is now being widely reported in the media, "Bosnian
Kazin Proxy Fight, Round 4
If anyone cares at this point, a recap: "Kazin":http://www.tnr.com/article/not-even-past/87379/republican-democrats-independents-dewey-lippmann, "me":https://themonkeycage.org/2011/04/independents_are_not_a_confuse.html,
Data Visualizations in Everything: Plagiarizing Politicians Edition
From "Vis4.net":http://vis4.net/blog/en/posts/guttenberg-plagiarism/, a visualization of the plagiarized bits in the
Why Security Studies Should Take Nonviolent Conflict Seriously
The following guest post comes from "Professor Erica Chenoweth":http://echenoweth.faculty.wesleyan.edu/ of
Potpourri
* "Poll results":http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~kwn/Documents/SocSci/HardProbsSocSciSummaryResultsandPollText_1Feb2011.pdf on the hardest problems in the social
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