Just in, (via a tweet from APSA) Larry Bartels and James Fearon have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Obviously, we have particular reason to be pleased – both are occasional contributors to the Monkey Cage (this correlation is emphatically not causation). Warm congratulations to both.
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Most useless college majors
Via Catherynne Valente (novelist – and also the daughter of a political scientist) on teh Twitter, US News and World Report comes up with a new linkbaiting exercise (yes – it worked, sort of), describing “political science and government” as the thirteenth most useless major. Me, if I were trying to categorize the “thirteen most […]
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Tips for article writers
From Ezra Zuckerman, the famous sociologist. Pari passu, every single one of these seems to me to apply to political science journals too.
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Politics in Everything: Fine Needlework Edition
From Francis Spufford’s The Child That Books Built (Amazon, Powells) As well as her fiction, Rose (Wilder: daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) wrote the world’s only ideological celebration of American needlework. She saw expansive, unprecedented liberty in the Ohio Star and Log Cabin patterns of American quilts, and oppression in European patchwork, cramped by kings […]
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Mapping Public Opinion
David Sparks has some very nice maps of public opinion data. What’s impressive is how they combine data sparsity (which also gives us a rough and ready estimate of how the population is distributed) with information on respondents’ party ID. Via Cosma Shalizi.
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The Political Science of Child Soldiering in Africa
As reactions for, and against the Invisible Children campaign against Joseph Kony convulse blogs and Twitter, it may be no harm to turn to what political scientists have to say. Bernd Beber and Chris Blattman have a paper under submission on the logic of child soldiering that draws on a major data gathering project which […]
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The NSF and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Myron Gutmann of the NSF gave a talk a few days ago on the implications of computational social science – the slides are here (thanks to David Lazer for sharing them). This should be of interest to anyone interested in applying for NSF funding – very clearly, this is going to be a significant research […]
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Political scientists in public debate
At the Monkey Cage, we tend to talk about specific political science research findings But it’s at the least plausibly useful to link to political scientists who build out from their research to engage in more general kinds of public debate. To that end, I’ll try to do some occasional posts with links to recent […]
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The political economy of skills
Matthew Yglesias proposes that employers should tackle problems of skill shortages themselves. On a firm level obviously one solution here is to just pay higher wages and hire away someone else’s machinist. But there are still only so many machinists to go around. At some point the reasonable thing to do is to find a […]