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Pippa Norris sends along the following announcement: ************** We are in the process of developing a new survey monitoring expert Perceptions of Electoral Integrity (PEI) and we need your help! The survey plans to contact c.40 experts immediately after each national election (constituent assembly, presidential or parliamentary) to gather views about these contests. Experts will be drawn […]

Eastwooding from buzzfeed Eastwooding @FastLaugh: “Give Clint Eastwood a break… The RNC asked him to speak about ObamaCare and he thought they said ObamaChair..” Obama’s response to Eastwooding at lockerz.com And of course, The Simpson’s did it first: ****** Update, OK, turns out the Simpson’s cartoon was edited – original version is “Old Man Yells […]

Simon Jackman posted the following graphic on his blog, which earned a rave review from Lynn Vavrek on Twitter and a lengthy discussion by Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post. I admit the graphic is a great – sums up a lot of information incredibly concisely to present a quite coherent story – but I […]

This following is a guest-post from Fredrik M Sjoberg, a Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia University (who is still disappointed about not being able to present these findings at APSA….). The paper on which this post is based is here. *********** Why is it that voters in autocratic states report a higher confidence in the honesty […]

Here’s something for all of you political scientists who suddenly have extra time on your hands today to ponder. The journal Economic Inquiry has adopted a “no revisions” option when you submit papers to the journal. Here’s how the process works: Under this policy, an author can submit under a ‘no revisions’ policy. This policy […]

Matthew Lebo of SUNY Stony Brook sends along the following announcement for anyone in the NYC area who was planning on going to APSA and would like a chance to present their paper and get some feedback: The Long Island Political Science Associates (we aren’t an association) will have (potentially) a two-day mini conference this […]

Full details are available on the APSA website here.

Javier Sajuria, a political science PhD student at University College London, has mapped the social networks surrounding tweets using the #APSA2012 hashtag. His full report (repeatedly being updated with notifications, not surprisingly, through his twitter feed) is available here, but here’s the basic picture (as of 5:49 EST on August 28th): (And yes, I’m in […]

Nope, not another sex scandal post (although I do want to congratulate Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur on their engagement). Instead, this is a story about using sex – or, more accurately, the lack thereof – as a political tactic. As the AP reports: The female wing of a civil rights group is urging […]

Following the lead of the Republican party, the American Political Science Association is also delaying the start of its national convention by a day. From the APSA website: Weather Alert: Hurricane Isaac Updated: August 26, 2012 (5:20pm) All Wednesday events CANCELLED (including Short Courses) In light of the projected conditions in New Orleans by hurricane […]