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Having already been critiqued for my economics acumen by Andy earlier today, I figured I might as well wander even deeper into the lion’s den by trying my hand at probability theory. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but despite the flurry of articles about how buying a lottery ticket is inherently irrational, at this […]

From the NY Times: A sales tax of 20 percent on pasties and other takeout snacks…. announced last week as part of the government’s austerity budget, was aimed at closing a loophole that exempted hot, freshly baked takeout foods, like pasties, pies, toasted sandwiches and rotisserie chickens, from the point-of-sale tax known in Britain as […]

The following election report on Moldova’s recent indirect presidential election is provided by Ion Marandici, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University. Now although you may be tempted to skip this post on your way to an analysis of Rick Santorum’s latest fund-raising numbers, it is absolutely worth reading, even […]

From official Monkey Cage cartoonist Ted McCagg:

The following election report is written by Devesh Tiwari, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at UC-San Diego, and appeared previously at Fruits and Votes. **** Over a three week period, approximately 60 percent of India’s Uttar Pradesh region’s 126 million eligible voters participated in state level elections that took place in seven stages, making […]

Next time anyone complains that political science articles are too technical and dry, be sure to direct them to Keith Darden’s excellent 2008 Politics and Society article “The Integrity of Corrupt States: Graft as an Informal State Institution“, which contains the following passage from transcribed (secret) audio recordings from Ukraine (p.47): Kuchma: So then you […]

Following tomorrow’s Illinois primary, I assume there will be renewed calls for one of Santorum or Gingrich (and most likely the latter) to drop out of the race* in order for conservative Republicans to increase their influence on the nomination process. The logic of the argument is very intuitive: as long as Santorum and Gingrich […]

The organizers of the West Coast Experiments Conference send along the following announcement: The fifth annual meeting of the West Coast Experiments Conference will be held at the Claremont Resort, near the campus of UC Berkeley, on Friday, May 11, 2012. For information on registration and local arrangements, please visit: http://ps-experiments.ucr.edu/conference/western. We encourage anyone with […]

Konstantin Sonin of the New Economic School in Moscow sent along the following in response to my request for comments on the 2012 Russian presidential election: I wrote a piece for FREE Policy Brief, a joint project of a Swedish, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and Polish think tanks, where detailed my election impressions – comments are […]

The following post-election report on Saturday’s 2012 Slovak elections is co-authored by Kevin Deegan-Krause, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University, and Tim Haughton, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies & Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, University of Birmingham. Perhaps the most […]