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The following is a guest post from Jessica Gottleib, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Stanford University: Mali is a country that rarely makes headlines.  A stable democracy since 1992, there has been no election violence to report, and a history of tolerance between diverse groups has meant little ethnic conflict either.  However, Mali […]

The all-politics-all-the-time website Politico has a section called “The Arena” in which they query a bunch of (ex-)politicians and political analysts, and then put up the answers to the question of the days next to each other in a blog-like format. Here’s today’s question: A recent story by POLITICO’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen suggests […]

From the Midwest Political Science Association: Three weeks ago, the House voted to prohibit the National Science Foundtation (NSF) from funding Political Science research . This will not reduce government spending, but instead makes funding decisions based on politics rather than merit. This week, the Senate decided to delay their vote, allowing us to have some additional time to provide […]

The Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame has set up a virtual tribute to Guillermo O’Donnell where you can find video  from a conference celebrating his work and life that was held in March in Buenos Aries, media reports of the Argentina tribute, and written tributes from fellow scholars, friends, students, and organizations, beginning with […]

We are once again pleased to welcome back NYU political scientist Nathaniel Beck with a follow up to his previous guest post at The Monkey Cage on the misleading use of data regarding youth employment in the media: Andrew Gelman has some nice points to make about Campbell Brown’s piece in the Sunday Review Section […]

We are pleased to welcome the following French 2012 Presidential Election post-election report from Patrick Merle and Dennis Paterson of Texas Tech University. On April 22 and May 6, 2012, more than 37 million French citizens went to the polls to select the next president of the Fifth Republic. Since December 21, 1958, French voters […]

This is a guest-post from Fredrik M Sjoberg, currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at NYU. The paper on which this post is based is here. In recent years, non-democratic rulers have surprisingly begun to embrace fraud-reducing technologies, like web cameras or transparent ballot boxes. Most recently Russia had webcams installed across the vast territory (see this […]

The following guest post is from Nathaniel Beck, a political scientist at New York University. We are obviously in the midst of the most serious recession since the Great Depression, one marked by the persistence of high unemployment. Young college graduates are particularly scared about the job situation they will face, and they should be. […]

Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his third term as Russia’s president today. As numerous news organizations have reported, Russia’s nascent opposition movement also took to the streets to mark the event. We are fortunate to have the following guest post from University of Indiana political scientist Regina Smyth, who is spending the year in Moscow. […]

Public opinion polls on the eve of the second round of the French presidential election suggest that incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy is heading for near certain defeat. For supporters of the president looking for a glimmer of hope, Bertand Lemennicier, professor of economics in Faculty of Law of the University of Paris Sorbonne, Pantheon-Assas, has written a […]