The Sociology of Think-Tanks
"This article":http://www.thenation.com/article/174437/secret-donors-behind-center-american-progress-and-other-think-tanks in The Nation is likely to cause some
IQ and the Nativist Movement
We welcome back Diego von Vacano for a guest post
Three Notes on Ideas and Political Economy
"Dani Rodrik's piece":http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-economists-killed-policy-analysis-by-dani-rodrik on the reasons why political economy needs
Jack Goldstone is blogging
The blog is "here":http://newpopulationbomb.wordpress.com/. Hat tip to Tyler.
Who Benefits from Higher Turnout?
One of the features that will surely differentiate the 2012
What Happens When Terrorist Leaders Are Killed?
bq. The 2006 National Strategy for Combating Terrorism lists leadership
Russia and Libya: What’s Going On?
"Dmitry Gorenburg":http://russiamil.wordpress.com/ has an "excellent post up on his Russian
Webpage Honoring George Rabinowitz
The UNC political science department has created "this website":http://uncpolisci.wordpress.com/. You
Do Unionized States Have Higher Taxes?
Now that Wisconsin has eliminated collective bargaining rights for public-sector
Russia in 2020
"Nikolay Petrov":http://www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=370 of the "Carnegie Moscow Center":http://carnegie.ru/?lang=en is heading up
Are Polls More Likely to be Off Where There is a Larger Latino Vote?
Nate Silver has an "interesting post":http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/did-polls-underestimate-democrats-latino-vote/ that highlights some of
More on Luzhkov Sacking
My colleague "Sandy Gordon":http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/sanfordgordon and I each made a prediction
Markets in Everything: European Political Science Associations
"PolisciZurich":http://poliscizurich.wordpress.com/ has the story.
The Probability that Health Care Reform Will Be Repealed
At the an interesting-looking, and relatively new polisci blog, "Rule22":http://rule22.wordpress.com/
My First Attempt at Potpourri
* "Gary King":http://gking.harvard.edu/ raised the following point on Facebook yesterday:
What the Russia Spy Swap Tells us about Russia
The final chapter in the recent Russia spy scandal seems
Interested in Ukraine?
Two quick Ukraine related notes. First, the Chair of Ukrainian
Who Will Watch the Watchers? A Critique of Stratfor’s Russia Commentary
A while ago "I recommended":https://themonkeycage.org/2009/08/russian_military_reform_blog.html Dmitry Gorenburg's blog on "Russian
Learning the Hard Way? The March 2010 Swiss Pension Referendum
In our continuing series of "election reports":https://themonkeycage.org/election_reports/, we are pleased
The “guitar groups are on the way out” problem
"Fabio Rojas":http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/i-rejected-a-famous-article/ at Orgtheory I find it interesting that I
Russian Military Reform Blog
A colleague of mine from graduate school, Dmitry Gorenburg, has
Torture and Social Science Revisited
About two months ago, I posed a question about the