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We welcome the following election report from Professor Julie George of Queens College on the ongoing debacle in South Ossetia (a break-away republic of Georgia, currently recognized as an independent state by five countries: Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, and Tuvalu). For those of you not quite familiar with where exactly South Ossetia is, we have […]

It is not shaping up to be a great week for either Vladimir Putin or Mitt Romney. Putin had to deal with the spectrum of yet another mass protest against his rule – and in extremely adverse weather conditions, making the protest all the more impressive – and Romney faced the somewhat humiliating spectacle of […]

Monkey Cage reader Michael Moschella writes in with the following interesting observation in light of last night’s bad night for Mitt Romney: El Paso County is home to Colorado Springs and a top “military bastion” county in America. According to Wikipedia, El Paso County’s population surpassed Denver County in 2010, making it the most populous […]

I actually don’t have any Monkey Cage-type comments to make – I just wanted to put this picture up on the blog… What a game!!

In my post on Friday, I suggested that the cold would probably push down the number of protesters in yesterday’s protest, and the resulting story would be about a protest movement losing steam. Instead – in a sign perhaps of just how important the expectations game has become – the story actually appears to be […]

As the New York Times notes, it is going to be very cold (as in, negative 10 F, temperatures in which it can be difficult to breath) in Moscow this Saturday for the next scheduled anti-Putin protest. As a result – despite the opportunity to send a very powerful signal by having a huge turn […]

Here at The Monkey Cage we allow people to “Tweet” posts to their Twitter followers, and “Like” posts to their Facebook friends. Lately I’ve noticed that some posts get more tweets than likes, some get more likes than tweets, and others get roughly the same amount. Anyone have any idea why? Is there any research […]

The following is a guest post from Scott Gehlbach, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: In a recent post on the Monkey Cage, Andrew Gelman writes that he was “not convinced” by a recent attempt to debunk evidence of fraud in Russia’s recent parliamentary elections, though he asserts that he knows “nothing about […]

We are currently in the process of formalizing a relationship with Electoral Studies, an academic journal, to have authors who write for the very useful “Notes on Recent Elections” section of the journal also contribute pre-election and/or post-election reports to the Monkey Cage’s Election Reports feature. I’ll have more on this as it develops, and […]

Registration is now open for the 5th Annual NYU-CESS Experimental Political Science Conference taking place on March 2-3, 2012. Information about the conference is available here, including the schedule of presentations (Friday and Saturday) and information concerning special rates at local hotels. You can register for the conference here. Registration continues to be free, and […]