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The following is a guest post from University of Chicago political scientist Alberto Simpser. The first chapter of his forthcoming book, Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections: Theory, Practice, and Implications, can be found here. The PRI won the presidency in the July 1st Mexican election, but the dust has not settled yet (see Marco […]

Continuing our on going partnership with the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association newsletter, here is the second article we will post from the current issue of the newseletter. Interested readers are invited to download the entire newsletter – which is ungated – here. The article is written by UCLA sociologist Andreas Wimmer. This research […]

University of Toronto political scientist Ed Schatz sends along the following comment regarding a recently published article. Readers should note that he managed to convince the editors of Politiy to ungate the article in conjunction with this post in The Monkey Cage – so perhaps another model worth trying to make more research accessible to […]

The following post-election report was prepared by Marco A. Morales, a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University. In addition to his graduate work in political science, Morales has also served as a public official under both PRI and PAN administrations, most recently – under the current PAN administration – as […]

Continuing our collaboration with newsletters from sections of the American Political Science Association, we present a selection from the current issue of the Political Economist, which looks at the political economy of campaign finance. This particular selection is an essay by Scott Ashworth on what formal models of campaign finance say about three arguments rejected […]

Continuing our on going partnership with the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association newsletter, we will present two articles from the current issue in the Monkey Cage today and tomorrow. The first is by political scientists Dan Slater of the University of Chicago and Joseph Wong of the University of Toronto:  It […]

We are pleased to welcome back University of Texas-Austin political scientist Jason Brownlee with the following post-election report on Egypt’s presidential elections: ******** Sunday afternoon, the Presidential Election Commission (PEC) declared Dr. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political wing the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the winner of Egypt’s first competitive […]

[h/t to Allison Plass]

The following post election report on Sunday’s Greek parliamentary elections is provided by Kostas Gemenis, Assistant Professor of Research Methods at the University of Twente and member of the research team behind Choose4Greece, a voting advice application for the May and June elections, and Roula Nezi, PhD candidate at the University of Athens and Visiting […]

We are very pleased to welcome a new political science blog on political violence entitled Political Violence @ a Glance featuring an all-star team of a dozen co-authors, including The Monkey Cage’s own Erica Chenoweth and Jason Lyall. This blog should be a must read for anyone interested in the topic of political violence (as […]