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The current issue of Perspectives on Politics includes a symposium which I organized (i.e. I invited the participants and wrote the foreword), on UCLA political scientist Timothy Groseclose’s Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind, which builds in part on his earlier research with Milyo. Links below: Brendan Nyhan argues that there […]

The New York Times has an article today on the foreign consequences of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. A law intended to prohibit the payment of bribes to foreign officials by United States businesses has produced more than $3 billion in settlements. But a list of the top companies making these settlements is notable […]

From APSA’s website ———————————- Weather Alert: Hurricane Isaac Updated: August 27, 2012 (2:30pm) UPDATE: Meeting to Start on Thursday. Following Mayor Landrieu’s press conference (8/27) affirming that the city is prepared for the storm, and from our own independent inquires, we will continue with the official start of the meeting on Thursday as announced. We […]

The new issue of Perspectives on Politics is now available. It’s intended to tie in with the APSA meeting next week, and has a particular focus on New Orleans, with articles by former Perspectives editors Jennifer Hochschild and Jim Johnson, as well as pieces by Kevin Fox Gotham, Michael Dawson, William Paul Simmons and Monica […]

Dan Nexon has some excellent advice over at The Duck of Minerva.

Kevin O’Rourke has a new paper which talks inter alia about how public opinion constrains the options of EU decision makers in the current crisis. The first point to note is that the Euro project started with less public support than the Single Market project enjoyed in 1992. Even worse, it started out with negative […]

Via Matthew Yglesias on Twitter, this insight from the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative economics blog looks to plausibly have relevance for political scientists. Milton Friedman’s thermostat is an idea that has very broad application, and has nothing in particular to do with Monetarism or even macroeconomics. Or even economics. … Everybody knows that if you press […]

K. Amber Curtis, Joe Jupille and David Leblang have a paper on Iceland’s “Icesave” referendums, “the only occasions in history on which ‘the people’ were asked to vote directly on sovereign debt resettlement terms.” On the basis of a survey conducted immediately after the second referendum, they find that voting was in part driven by […]

Over the last decade, international security scholars have created a cottage industry investigating the role of “audience costs” in coercion, thanks in large part to a theoretical argument first put forward by Monkey Cage blogger, James Fearon. The basic argument is that democratic leaders will be more likely to have their threats believed than non-democratic […]

John and I are members (along with Sean Aday, Deen Freelon and Marc Lynch) of a multi-author team which has been doing USIP sponsored work on new technology and the Arab Spring. The USIP has just published a report based on our findings, which suggest that Twitter was rather more important as a way of […]