The Trump administration wants to be able to break into your encrypted data. Here’s what you need to know.
And so do governments around the world.
Congress keeps quiet on U.S. drone policy — and that’s a big problem
A day after President Trump’s prime-time speech on Aug. 21
Turkish referendum rallies in Europe made headlines. Did they affect election results?
[caption id="attachment_57912" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A Turkish electoral official shows a
The Obama administration wanted to open up government to citizen input. Why hasn’t it worked?
Beth Simone Noveck is the Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor
Cleaning up politics
[caption id="attachment_27496" align="aligncenter" width="1126"] The degree of state regulation of
Nuclear Assault, 'Torture Tactics': The Week In One Song
This week: With the CIA report, torture's back in the
Nuclear Assault, ‘Torture Tactics’: The Week In One Song
This week: With the CIA report, torture's back in the
Mastodon, 'The Czar': The Week in One Song
The alarm over Ebola continues, and the president appoints Ron
Mastodon, ‘The Czar’: The Week in One Song
The alarm over Ebola continues, and the president appoints Ron
The Damned, 'Sick of Being Sick': The Week in One Song
Ebola continues to devastate west Africa — and arrives in the
The Damned, ‘Sick of Being Sick’: The Week in One Song
Ebola continues to devastate west Africa — and arrives in the
Ukraine's 2014 presidential election result is unlikely to be repeated
[caption id="attachment_11219" align="aligncenter" width="600" special=""] Ukraine's 2014 Presidential election result
Ukraine’s 2014 presidential election result is unlikely to be repeated
[caption id="attachment_11219" align="aligncenter" width="600" special=""] Ukraine's 2014 Presidential election result
'It's Gonna Get Worse': The week in one song
The Subhumans beat Thomas Piketty to the punch by about
‘It’s Gonna Get Worse’: The week in one song
The Subhumans beat Thomas Piketty to the punch by about
Where are the flawed elections?
Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John
The week in one song: 'Call the Doctor'
... for what ails HealthCare.Gov. Don't forget to wheel the
Why Care About the O’Bagy Affair?
"Tom Ricks":http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/09/12/a_word_in_semi_defense_of_e_obagy and "Dave Weigel":http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/09/12/in_partial_defense_of_the_disgraced_syria_scholar_with_the_fake_degree.html partially defend Elizabeth O'Bagy, the
How Slavery Changed the US South
Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell and Maya Sen find in a
Morsi was No Role Model for Islamic Democrats
The following guest post is from UT-Austin political scientist Jason
The Dynamics of Information Diffusion in the Turkish Protests
Below is a guest-post from Sandra González-Bailón at the Oxford Internet
Woman Has a Name
The following guest post is by Duke political scientist Bahar
Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
James Druckman and Jeremy Freese write: (more…)
What the Reinhart & Rogoff Debacle Really Shows: Verifying Empirical Results Needs to be Routine
Victoria Stodden is an assistant professor of statistics at Columbia
Develop New Apps to Make Government Work Better
I'm a judge in a new competition sponsored by ChallengePost
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
The International Relations of Cybersecurity
The recent "Mandiant report":http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf has spurred a lot of debate
Robert Cottrell on the Value of Academic Blogging
Robert Cottrell has a very nice "long piece":http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/009050e4-75ea-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2L0US3ENp in the
Hilary Mason on data sharing
Hilary Mason, chief scientist at bit.ly, has "two":http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/startups-how-to-share-data-with-academics/ "posts":http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/startups-why-to-share-data-with-academics/ on
Duck of Minerva Blogging Awards
The people at Duck of Minerva have asked me to
International Relations Blogger Awards
Dan Nexon and the other folks at _The Duck of
Too many journals, or, Never respond to an email where they put your name in all caps
I received the following (unsolicited) email: Dear ANDREW GELMAN, I
2012 Egyptian Presidential Post-Election Report: President Asterisk
We are pleased to welcome back University of Texas-Austin political
Cognitive Democracy
Over the last couple of years, Cosma Shalizi and I
Most useless college majors
Via "Catherynne Valente":http://www.catherynnemvalente.com (novelist - and also the daughter of
A Modest Proposal to Increase the Circulation of Political Science Journals?
Courtesy of the Daily Show: <div style="background-color:#000000;width:520px;"><div style="padding:4px;"><iframe src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:413056" width="512"
Cross-National Diffusion of Protest
Why does protest that starts in one country sometime spread
A New Solidarity Movement in Hungary?
I was lecturing about transitions to democracy today, and I
Googling Ron Paul in Iowa
Google search activity may or may not be predictive here,
Blame the Sociologists
"Matthew Yglesias":http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/11/16/370007/the-social-graph-is-neither-social-nor-a-graph/ quotes Maciej Ceglowski "complaining":http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ about the concept of
Switzerland Post-Election Report: 2011 Parliamentary Elections
In our continuing series of "election reports":http://tmc.org/blog/category/election-reports/, we are pleased
Tunisia National Assembly Post-Election Report: So Far, So Good
Continuing our series of election reports, we are pleased to
Tunisia Pre-Election Report: Hope and Angst in Tunisia’s Elections
Continuing our series of election reports, we are pleased to
This Week in Political Science
NEGATIVE ADVERTISING: As the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination
Slovakia and the Euro Bailout: What happened? What’s next? (The short and very short versions)
We are pleased to welcome back Kevin Deegan-Krause," a frequent
Election Report: United Arab Emirates
This is a a guest post from Zachary Smith, an
Potpourri
* "Bruce Bueno do Mesquita":http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-28-2009/bruce-bueno-de-mesquita and "Alastair Smith":http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/AlastairSmith (who will
What to Watch in Libya in the Coming Months (and Years)
From the perspective of someone who knows little about Libya
AAA Ratings and Regime Types
About four weeks ago -- in the midst of the
Would Women Have Solved the Debt Crisis?
Provocative commentary by "LZ Granderson, a CNN columnist,":http://www.cnn.com/OPINION/granderson.commentaries/archive/ on "CNN.com":http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/19/granderson.women.power/index.html.
Realpolitik and Dragons
"Alyssa Rosenberg":http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/07/18/realpolitik_in_a_fantasy_world?page=0%2C0 claims that the themes of George R.R. Martin's
Pandora, Online Dating, and Insomnia Mediciation: Looking Forward to the Primaries!
Continuing on my "Internet 2.0 theme":http://tmc.org/blog/2011/07/08/whatever-will-facebook-think-of-next/ from last week, thought
OK, John, So Should the Republican Party Tank the Economy? If So, I Have an Idea How They Can Do It…
So "John's post":http://tmc.org/blog/2011/07/14/the-debt-ceiling-and-blame-for-obama-and-the-gop/ inspired me to write on a topic
Athens vs. Madrid: On the Different Forms Protests Take
[caption id="attachment_7739" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="Spanish Indignado's in Puerto del Sol,
Serbia and the EU
I have an "op-ed today":http://www.tnr.com/article/world/89437/ratko-mladic-serbia-european-union-croatia-euro at "The New Republic":http://www.tnr.com/ in
Ambassador McFaul
One of the main goals of The Monkey Cage is
Tarrow seminar
Via "Orgtheory":http://www.orgtheory.net, Cornell is hosting a seminar to honor Sidney
Why It Matters That Bin Laden Was Behind Recent Terrorist Plots
We are pleased to welcome back "Erica Chenoweth.":http://echenoweth.faculty.wesleyan.edu/ Erica is
June 2011 Portuguese Parliamentary Elections: Pre-Election Report
As part of our continuing series of election reports, we
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,
Graeme Robertson on the politics of dictatorship
Live at "Foreign Policy":http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/think_again_dictators. It's a nice _tour de horizon_
On the Rationality or Irrationality of Political Independents
Jon Chait "disagrees":http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/87547/the-irrationality-independent-voters with "my earlier post":https://themonkeycage.org/2011/04/independents_are_not_a_confuse.html on political independents:
Potpourri
* Henry and John Quiggin on "Keynesianism in Europe":http://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/26/hard-keynesianism-in-the-european-union/. *
Independents Are Not a “Confused Horde”
bq. But what if millions of independents are really just
Prospects for New Democracies in the Arab World: Chronicles of Deaths (and Rebirths) Foretold
This is a guest post from Jay Ulfelder, former research
Red Constitutions, Blue Constitutions
The image is from a new article by "David Law":http://dss.ucsd.edu/~dslaw/Welcome.html
Riots in Nigeria
On top of everything else going on in Africa and
Really, Unlock the NSF!
This "post":http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/04/20/us-national-science-foundation-blocks-global-voices-advocacy-website/ by Ethan Zuckerman is pretty extraordinary, and finishes
Political Advantage in S&P Downgrade Revision?
A reporter asked me this question: bq. In the fight
Should We Take Trump Seriously?
Now that you've "finished with your taxes":https://themonkeycage.org/2011/04/happy_tax_day.html and have some
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, Right? New Blog at TNR
"The New Republic":http://www.tnr.com/ has a new blog on their website
Potpourri
* "Harvard boys went nation-building in Libya":http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2011.03.27/1248.html * Charli Carpenter
Comparing Apples with Cows
Sometimes we despair a bit about the level of political
Voting: Could This Be a Trend?
Earlier this year I was put in charge of the
Potpourri
* The best predictor of declining Democratic identification is "how
Social Conflict in Africa Database
"Idean Salehyan":http://www.cas.unt.edu/~idean/ announces a new databse: bq. The Social Conflict
Epistemic closure – climate change edition
Via via "Serendipity":http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=2297 and "Ethan Zuckerman":http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/03/09/links-for-2011-03-09/, an "article":http://pubpages.unh.edu/~lch/Hamilton_climate_interaction.pdf suggesting that
Potpourri
* Lynn Vavreck becomes the first political scientist whose research
Why Security Studies Should Take Nonviolent Conflict Seriously
The following guest post comes from "Professor Erica Chenoweth":http://echenoweth.faculty.wesleyan.edu/ of
The Benefits of Scandalous Information
People like to complain when the media focuses on "political
Why Do Protests Bring Down Regimes? A Follow Up
"Professor Graeme Robertson":http://www.unc.edu/depts/polisci/faculty_pages/robertson.htm of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2011 Ugandan Presidential Election: Pre-Election Report
We are pleased to welcome "Elliott Green":http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/e.d.green@lse.ac.uk, a Lecturer in
Taking Seats on that Empty Bench
John Sides and Jon Bernstein have both weighed in recently
Potpourri
* "Al Jazeera traffic statistics":http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/13/al-jazeeras-social-revolution-in-realtime. [Hat tip to Marc Lynch]
Forecasting Revolutions: To (Statistically) Model or Not To Model?
The following is a guest post by Jay Ulfelder. ****
Guest-Blogger Elizabeth Saunders
We welcome guest-blogger "Elizabeth Saunders":http://home.gwu.edu/~esaunder/. She has just published _Leaders
Who is Willing to Protest in Egypt?
Political scientists "Drew Linzer":http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~dlinzer/ and "Lisa Blaydes":http://www.stanford.edu/~blaydes/ have "another article
Potpourri
* "Maybe one day people will talk less about Ronald
Potpourri
* "The decline of American economists":http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2011/01/the_decline_of_american_economists.html. * "Nice post":http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2011/01/violent-rhetoric-and-violent-behavior.html by
“One of the Fingers on the Button Will be German”: German Economic Preferences over EU Institutions and the Irish Economic Crisis
Most of the contributions to this seminar begin with Germany's
What Difference Does (In)Civility Make? (Part 1)
The call for civility is "all around":http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/383069, and members of
Civic Literacy Quiz
Take it "here":http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx. Hat tip to Mike Munger. See also
Political Vitriol and Political Violence
This is from a statement by the National Jewish Democratic
Potpourri
* "Accuracy of 2010 election polls and forecasts":http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/ratings/2010/summary/. * Tyler
Southern Sudan Referendum on Secession: Pre-Plebiscite Report
We are pleased to continue the return of our "election
The Parties Really Are Unified
A while back, I "took Gail Collins to task":https://themonkeycage.org/2009/04/what_doesnt_gail_collins_under.html for
Measuring Diffusion through errors
"Fabrizio Gilardi":http://poliscizurich.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/diffusion-everywhere-dumb-and-dumber-edition/ In an "article":http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2010.01501.x/abstract on national tax blacklists recently
Academia as a Meritocracy: A Response to The Economist
In its year end issue, "The Economist":http://www.economist.com/ makes one of
Potpourri
* "Harry Reid did pretty well against filibuster threats":http://www.rollcall.com/news/-201997-1.html. *
Belarus Presidential Elections: Observations on the Observations
The Monkey Cage's "resident Slovakia expert":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/07/2010_slovak_parliamentary_elec.html, "Kevin Deegan-Krause":http://www.pozorblog.com/ (below, in