A post-election report
Joshua Tucker
Joshua Tucker is a professor of politics at New York University with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and New York University-Abu Dhabi. His major field is comparative politics with an emphasis on mass politics, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public-opinion formation, and political protest.
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Hamsters vs. Rabbits
The Monkey Cage checks in with that other presidential election.
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Voting Behavior of US Military Personnel
In a post earlier this week, I asked whether anyone had conducted research regarding the voting behavior of US military personnel. Major Jim Golby, an Instructor in the Department of Social Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Stanford Ph.D., kindly sent along the following response. Please be aware that […]
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Sex Scandals and Race
Newt Gingrich’s marital infidelity hasn’t sank his campaign the same way sex scandal derailed the Cain Train, and race is a factor.
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Brat Pack 2012
Your definitive guide to what John Hughes characters the GOP candidates would be.
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Euro Crisis Part XVII: Boardgame Edition
Rethinking Monopoly for the millennial and international set.
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Getting the Facts Straight: Payroll Tax Edition
From Princeton political scientist Nolan McCarty’s blog: For me at least, one of the frustrations about the debate over extending the cut in the payroll tax is extent to which politicians have tried to exploit the public’s lack of understanding about how the Social Security system works. The first lie is the Republican claim that […]
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Actually, Iowa is Extremely Representative in Terms of its Economy!
We are once again pleased to welcome back Professor Michael Lewis-Beck of the University of Iowa, with the following guest post suggesting that Iowa – far from being atypical in terms economic conditions – is actually the most “representative” state in the country in this regard! Before every presidential campaign, there is intense discussion over […]