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Obituary here, via Tyler Cowen. When Lin won the Nobel, I said that I was sure that she would have preferred it to have been jointly offered to her and her husband, and I am sure I was right. Vincent and Lin were an extraordinary couple, both as husband and wife, and as intellectual collaborators. […]

A few days ago, Paul Krugman speculated on the similarities and differences between the pre-Civil War United States, and the eurozone today. Greece and Portugal are relatively poor, with GDP per capita of 82 and 77 percent, respectively, of the EU average; this means roughly 76 and 71 percent of the eurozone average, since the […]

A rather lengthier response to Jacqueline Stevens’ op-ed. Speaking to various points in turn. the government — disproportionately — supports research that is amenable to statistical analyses and models even though everyone knows the clean equations mask messy realities that contrived data sets and assumptions don’t, and can’t, capture. The claim that real politics is […]

Two recent articles on the euro crisis that I’ve been meaning to blog. First, Daniel Kelemen argues that neither the euro nor the euro’s difficulties are likely to disappear? anytime soon: With both breakup and immediate solutions off the table, then, the eurozone is settling into a new normal. As the union slowly digs itself […]

These look to be circulating like wildfire via the usual social media – for those who haven’t seen ‘em yet, they’re at Mother Jones. I particularly like the Carly Fiorina demon sheep reference.

Philip Rehm, Jacob Hacker and Mark Schlesinger have an article in the new American Political Science Review. There are two major approaches to explaining different levels of popular support in different countries for welfare state policies. One concentrates on class politics – the argument here is that people’s social class shapes their attitude to the […]

Several articles in the new issue of the American Political Science Review are open access for the month of June. Click on the link to read: Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World, Lisa Blaydes and Drew A. Linzer Does the Leader’s Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education, and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, Raphael […]

Marc Lynch has compiled a reader of articles on violence in the Middle East, all taken from Perspectives on Politics (I’m an associate editor of PoP, but had nothing to do with this). In his description. Too Much Information: International Affairs, Political Science, and the Public Sphere,” by Lisa Anderson (Perspectives on Politics, excerpted in […]

Charles Lane writes an opinion piece for the Washington Post today, taking issue with posts at the Monkey Cage, and arguing that the NSF should not fund political science (or the social sciences more generally). My take (other Monkey Cagers may differ) is that his argument starts in the right place, but ends up in […]

A few months ago, I posted a draft article on Politics and the Internet that was forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science. The final version is now out, and available (via a paywall passthrough: let me know if you are a non-academic reader and this doesn’t work for you) here – with acknowledgment […]