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Your definitive guide to what John Hughes characters the GOP candidates would be.

Jeff Ely: The way it works now is you write a paper then you send it to a journal and they review it and decide whether to publish it.  The basic unit is the paper.  What if we made the author the basic unit?  Instead of inviting submissions, Econometrica invites applications for the position of […]

We are currently in the process of formalizing a relationship with Electoral Studies, an academic journal, to have authors who write for the very useful “Notes on Recent Elections” section of the journal also contribute pre-election and/or post-election reports to the Monkey Cage’s Election Reports feature. I’ll have more on this as it develops, and […]

Republican elected officials and party leaders had a role in Gingrich’s Saturday coronation.

Don’t expect tonight’s address to change the fundamentals.

An interesting tidbit in the Miami Herald yesterday highlights the backroom struggle over, and importance of, delegate allocation rules in a drawn-out nomination season. (Whether we are actually in the midst of one, of course, has yet to be determined. Just ask John Sides’s cranky reader.) Florida’s primary next week is being touted as a […]

New research shows that Gingrich is at a disadvantage when it comes to looks in the campaign, and racial attitudes are still very strong predictors of how people feel about Barack Obama.

China “catching up” does not equal China “taking over the world” nor does it equate a future world where Americans can expect to be catering to their Chinese overlords.

I am delighted to welcome a guest post by Matthew Fuhrmann (Texas A&M) and Sarah Kreps (Cornell). This post is based on articles they published on the causes of military strikes against nuclear facilities in the  Journal of Conflict Resolution (non-gated version) and the consequences of those strikes in the Journal of Strategic Studies (non-gated version). ************************************************************** The crisis […]

My friend and colleague Daniel Ziblatt, a political scientist at Harvard, writes in response to my post: From a comparative and historical perspective, the interesting thing about this issue is that while we may be correct to assert that “theories of parties” predict establishment candidates win primaries, this is really a theory about the U.S, […]