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The following pre-election report is written by Harris Mylonas, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His book, The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. From the University of Tartu—where I am […]

A very quick question for the readers of this blog: does anyone know either (a) the percentage of US adults who have taken part in any Occupy events [I assume this is going to be very small] or (b) out of those American adults that took part in any protest in the past 12 months, […]

Following up on my recent posts (here and here) regarding which parts of the economy are more likely to affect voting behavior, I wanted to alert readers to a new paper by University of Minnesota political scientists Wendy Rahn and Philip Chen. Here’s the abstract from the paper: Nearly three years after the official end […]

Following my post last week on the topic of which economic conditions are most important for understanding variation in US presidential election results—and the difficulty inherent in this kind of enterprise when there are only 16 elections in your data set—University of Connecticut political scientist Matthew Singer kindly offered to provide a follow up guest […]

In this time of April, when most people think about taxes it involves making sure they get filed, as well as how much you owe (or are owed by) the government. But taxes can also play a crucial role in electoral politics. Generally, we tend to think of taxes as one of (if not the […]

Since James Carville famously wrote “The Economy, Stupid” in Bill Clinton’s campaign headquarters, the mass public has become increasingly familiar with what is one of the more important “facts” discovered by political scientists: US presidential elections are undoubtedly affected by the state of the economy. The question of which part of the economy matters most, […]

With all eyes on North Korea’s coming missile launch, we are pleased to welcome the following guest post from Professor James Clay Moltz of the Naval Postgraduate School, the author of Asia’s Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks: Pyongyang’s upcoming test of its Unha-3 rocket with a satellite aboard has thrown recent […]

Now that Rick Santorum has suspended his presidential campaign, we are going to see the inevitable slew of articles on how important/challenging it will be for Romney to win over Santorum’s voters for the general election (see here and here for example). From the perspective of someone who studies comparative politics (otherwise known as domestic […]

In the past I had success using the Monkey Cage to crowd-source a bibliography, so I thought I would try today to see if it would work for data as well. A graduate student in my department is looking for any source (or several) that may have looked at local-level executive and/or legislative elections in […]

Or at the very least, University of Michigan political scientist Jenna Bednar is! Her question appeared in the NY Times Magazine’s The Ethicist column this weekend, when she asked: Given the mounting evidence of long-term and even fatal effects of brain injuries incurred by professional football players, is it ethical for us to watch the […]