Biden says bring back the ‘talking filibuster.’ Would that really let Senate Democrats pass bills?
The details are devilish
Why are Republicans silent about the Ukraine whistleblower scandal? This one chart explains.
Comparing the political fortunes of Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake tells you a lot.
Is the media biased toward Clinton or Trump? Here is some actual hard data.
There are endless disputes this year about how the media
We live in a two party duopoly. Here’s how Bloomberg or Webb might break it.
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Are Republicans really driving congressional polarization? Maybe not.
The notion of "asymmetric polarization" is commonplace in political discourse
How we count Senate filibusters and why it matters
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Congress and the use of force in Syria
The president's decision to ask Congress's permission to use force
Statistics. Congress. Vital. And Free.
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Potpourri
* Great new data from Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty
Upcoming Roundtable on Mann and Ornstein’s It’s Even Worse Than It Looks
Monkey Cage readers in the Washington DC area may be
Polarization is Real (and Asymmetric)
This post is co-authored with Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, and
Just in case…
Norm Ornstein and others have long been concerned about the
Fixing Congress: suggestions by Rep. Jim Cooper and others
Jim Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee, wrote an article for the
Hoisted from Comments: Norm Ornstein on Citizens United
From the "comments":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/12/bleg_what_difference_did_citiz.html#comment-51265 on my "previous post":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/12/bleg_what_difference_did_citiz.html, here is Norm
Roundtables on Congress at APSA
Loyal (and not so loyal) readers of the Monkey Cage
Late Night Political Scientists
James Fowler is scheduled to appear on the Colbert Report
Filibustering and Deliberation: the Case for Free and Full Debate
As the Monkey Cage faithful know, I have been posting
The Fundamentals of Filibustering
1) Definition If we want to understand filibusters, it helps
Political Scientists in The Arena
As an only occasional reader of Politico, I am late
Often in error, but never in doubt — The (in)accuracy of pundits’ poliical predictions
Political scientists tend to be lousy political prognosticators. We speak