Monkey Cage readers Emily Ritter of the University of Alabama and Scott Wolford of the University of Texas-Austin send along the following: News emerged yesterday that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi has been in “indirect” contact with the International Criminal Court over the terms of a possible surrender, seeking a guarantee that he wouldn’t be sent back […]
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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The Supercommittee and Secrecy: A Good Thing?
With the Supercommittee back in the news (see here and here, for example) after weeks of secrecy, it seems a good time to ask the question of whether all this secrecy is good for policy making. After all, it seems antithetical to traditional notions of openness and transparency in government, things we often seek to […]
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Special World Series Edition of Graphiti: Win Probabilities from Game 6
In the “picture is worth a thousand words” department, the following graph shows the probability that each team will win at each moment of the game: Of course, this picture is pretty good too: Source for win probabilities (and more explanation available at): Fangraphs. H/t for the photo to Grantland.
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Ethical Challenges of Embedded Experimentation
Continuing our series of articles from the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Democratization Section, Newsletter, today we present the following article on the “Ethical Challenges of Embedded Experimentation” by Macartan Humphreys of Columbia University. Since posting the first article from the newsletter on Monday, I have subsequently learned that the entire newsletter is free and […]
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Tunisia Post-Election Report II: Free Fair and Meaningful
Tunisia’s transition now appears deeper and more robust than the nearest regional analogue: Egypt.
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Switzerland Post-Election Report: 2011 Parliamentary Elections
In our continuing series of election reports, we are pleased to welcome the following post-election report on Sunday’s Swiss Parliamentary election from Sean Müller and Paolo Dardanelli, both of the University of Kent. [NOTE: An incorrect, slightly different version of this post was originally posted. This version now reflects the correct version. Apologies – JT.] […]
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Why Now? Micro Transitions and the Arab Uprisings
We are pleased to welcome the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Democratization Section as the second section to take up our offer to provide a selection of articles from their newsletter free to the public here at The Monkey Cage. (See here for past posting of articles from Section newsletters.) Over the next three days […]
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Weekend Frivolity: Bad (Political!) Tats
Once again, official Monkey Cage cartoonist Ted McCagg:
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More on Qadaffi’s Death: Violent Leader Removal Increases Likelihood of Democratization
In response to my request for research on the effect of the death of dictators on the future prospects of the country in question, Michael Miller of the Australian National University sent along the following comments: You pose some very interesting and timely questions related to Qaddafi’s violent ouster and what this implies for Libya’s […]