How the tea party paved the way for Donald Trump
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Why would Pelosi step down? Parties don’t usually throw out congressional leaders after electoral losses.
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The Republicans’ big gerrymander could backfire in a major way
Some Republican leaders have expressed anxiety about a failed Trump
How political science helps explain the rise of Trump: Most voters aren’t ideologues
Donald Trump's success in the Republican presidential primaries — especially after
How Sarah Palin could help Donald Trump with Ted Cruz supporters
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Why does Trump remain atop the polls? You can still blame the media.
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What Americans really think about an Iran deal
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Protests shape policy by shaping protesters
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The tea party’s anti-Washington consensus
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The tea party's anti-Washington consensus
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Is a ‘national shift toward envy’ underway? Maybe not.
Jay Livingston is a one-man truth squad for Arthur Brooks.
Is a 'national shift toward envy' underway? Maybe not.
Jay Livingston is a one-man truth squad for Arthur Brooks.
In America, polarization is a problem. In Britain, it could be a solution.
Robert Ford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of
The two key factors behind our polarized politics
Jeff Stonecash studies the changing electoral bases of American political
Our politics is polarized on more issues than ever before
Thomas Carsey is the Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Five books of American political history that you must read
The following is a guest post by University of Hawaii
More on those happy conservatives
We recently discussed two claims made by Arthur Brooks in
No, Arthur Brooks: Conservative women are not 'particularly blissful'
Yesterday we reported on Arthur Brooks, president of the American
'None, it seems, are happier than the Tea Partiers . . .' Umm, maybe not.
Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute writes, The richest data
"The Tea Party is better understood as a reactionary conservative force."
This is a guest post by University of Washington political
The mythical moderates?
Until recently, moderate Republicans had succeeded in flying under the
The 5 species of House Republicans
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Can California’s New Primary Reduce Polarization? Maybe Not.
This is a guest post from Doug Ahler, Jack Citrin,
The GOP’s Conservative Christian Conundrum
We welcome a guest post by Daniel Cox. He is
On the Votes Against Boehner
This is a guest post by Jeffery A. Jenkins of the University
Could Conservatives Overthrow Boehner? What History Can Tell Us
This is a guest post by Jeffery A. Jenkins of
Mourdock, God’s Will, and Rape: How Americans Really Think about God and Public Policy
This is a guest post from Robert Jones, the CEO
Do Democrats have a 75% chance of taking back the House?
Sam Wang has criticized our model of House elections that
Are Republicans More Divided on Foreign Policy?
One presumed cause for the near absence of foreign policy
1.5 million people were told that extreme conservatives are happier than political moderates. Approximately .0001 million Americans learned that the opposite is true.
From Brooks op-ed in NYT: People at the extremes are
The Fiscal Facts of Life: Do Americans Understand Where Budget Deficits Come From?
Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate
Potpourri
* Annals of partisanship: campaign ethics. * How libertarian is
Polarization is Real (and Asymmetric)
This post is co-authored with Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, and
Sunny Days Make For Tea Party Success
bq. Can protests cause political change, or are they merely
Will a Losing GOP Shift Rightward?
George Packer: McGovern’s debacle forced the Democratic Party to find
A Cranky Reader and I Discuss the 2012 GOP Primary
Cranky Reader: Sides, you're not just a moron, but a
The Divided Tea Party
Matt Bai's piece on Sunday nicely illustrated how divided Tea
The New Hampshire Results: 2012 vs. 2008
Following on his earlier post on the Iowa caucus, here
Tea Party Analysis Analysis Fail
at "Esquire magazine":http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/tea-party-book-conclusions-6626383 bq. I respect any reporters who go
Tea Party Racism: Some Experimental Evidence
bq. Lavine and his colleagues designed an online survey
Ryancare and the Tea Party
Journalists covering Romney’s new position in favor of the Ryan
The Tea Party’s Lessons for #OWS
As camps around the country face evictions, many are wondering
No no no no no
I enjoy the London Review of Books but I'm not
Vanderbilt Poll: Gingrich and Cain, Romney and Perry
Herman Cain is down, Newt Gingrich is up. Is this
Broken Politics, Mixed-Up Media
"Broken Politics, Mixed-Up Media" is the title of a panel
What is Occupy Wall Street?
Political scientist Sidney Tarrow: Both the civil rights movement and
Occupy Wall Street as a Social Movement
"Erika Fry":http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/is_occupy_wall_street_getting.php at the _Columbia Journalism Review_ brings the social
How Robert Putnam helped create the Tea Party
If only entirely inadvertently ... Scott Heiferman recounts how Putnam
Media Bias, Political Science, and the Tea Party
Washington Times, Sept. 4: bq. Academics Dub Tea Partyers Devout,
Potpourri
* Car burning in Berlin * University websites: what we
Who is the Tea Party?
Political scientists "David Campbell":http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/faculty-list/david-campbell/ and "Robert Putnam":http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/robert-putnam report on what
Politics of the House vote to raise the debt ceiling
Just a few observations about Monday night's passage of the
The Effect of the Tea Party in 2010
In a post written right after the 2010 election, I
Why Would Congress Want a Debt Limit?
This is a guest post from Scott Adler and John
Who Benefits from Higher Turnout?
One of the features that will surely differentiate the 2012
Fox News as a Social Movement
Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol and John Coggin "argue":http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S153759271000407X (gated) that
Thoughts on the Appropriations Scrimmage
Let me add two thoughts to the Monkey Cage thread
Congressional dealmaking over the budget
I thought I'd add a few thoughts about the dynamics
Tea Party Conservatives Are Not Like Other Conservatives
Such is the conclusion of a new survey by political
The Tea Party and the Patriot Act Vote
The following is a guest post from "Hans Noel":http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/hcn4/, "Michael
Our Patchwork Nation
The journalist Dante Chinni and political scientist James Gimpel have
What is a party in American politics?
As John mentioned a while back (my recent Monkey Cage
How Much Did the Tea Party Help GOP Candidates?
The answer to this question is rife with what Brendan
Tea Party Candidates Are Quality Candidates
That's Brendan Nyhan's "conclusion":http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2010/10/did-the-tea-party-weaken-gop-candidate-quality.html: bq. More importantly, while it's true
Potpourri
* "Truthy":http://truthy.indiana.edu/. More "here":http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/how-truthy-is-the-twitter-torrent-23716/. * "The decline of final exams":http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/10/03/the_test_has_been_canceled/?page=full.
Foregoing the Party Label
David Chen in "the NY Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/nyregion/05dems.html: bq. One New York
Democrats Don’t Campaign
The following is a guest-post from "Robert Erikson":http://www.columbia.edu/~rse14/: bq. "White
Glenn Beck’s Rally and the Threat Gap
"We'll be the checks and balances on this out-of-control, criminal
What We Really Need to Know about Palin’s Endorsements
The Washington Post has this interactive graphic on who Sarah
Do Deficits Matter for Midterm Elections?
Ezra Klein writes yesterday about the effects of deficits and
Explaining the Origins of the Tea Party: A Rebuttal of Mark Lilla
Mark Lilla's essay, "The Tea Party Jacobins," seeks to explain
Habit + Ideology + Performance = Vote
In an excellent blog on the tea party protesters, coblogger
Will the Tea Party Succeed?
This rambling post begins with John Judis: bq. The Tea
How Republican Is the Tea Party Movement?
I noted the recent Politico/TargetPoint "exit poll" of Tea Party
1, 2, 3, Many Tea Parties?
Thomas Ferguson and Jie Chen wrote an article tying the
Federal Spending in Red and Blue States
Monkey Cage reader Ken Wedding forwarded me this post at
Punishing Your Own Representative: What to Make of New CNN Poll?
In a "post last week":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/02/incumbents_and_economic_voting.html, I raised the question of
Is Opposition to Health Care Reform About the “Process”?
The Washington Post describes this finding from the poll I
Scott Brown is a liberal Republican
Boris Shor writes: A special Senate election is being held
What NY-23 (and VA and NJ) Mean
Here is Seth Masket: bq. Here's what Owens' victory doesn't