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Following on our trip to Iowa last week, Lynn Vavreck and I are going to New Hampshire tomorrow.  I’ll do some more casual blogging and tweeting over the next few days, to be followed by some more substantive posts here and on Model Politics.   Speaking of which, see Lynn’s recent post on voters for […]

Good catch by Leslie Savan: Here’s how the New York Post’s Andrea Peyser began a column (“Jobless & Shameless Gal Going for Gold”) on one of the women charging Herman Cain with sexual harassment: Gold diggers-unite! Sharon Bialek is 50, out of work and, according to one who knows her, she’s a smooth operator living […]

In the Wall Street Journal, Carl Bialik mentions some of my research with Jack Citrin in a piece called “Americans Stumble on Math of Big Issues”: Political scientists John Sides of George Washington University and Jack Citrin of the University of California, Berkeley, hypothesized in a working paper that supplying Americans, who typically overestimate the […]

Almost fifteen years ago, Rose Razaghian and I wrote a paper that examined the underlying causes of increasing delays in the confirmation of executive branch appoints (not surprisingly, partisan polarization was the main culprit). Recess appointments did not quite fit into our framework as we focused on the time between nomination and Senate confirmation. Fortunately, […]

We are very pleased to have Nolan McCarty as a new occasional contributor to The Monkey Cage.  Nolan is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.  His work has focused on American political institutions and especially the study of partisan polarization.  See, for example, his recent book with Keith […]

We are delighted to welcome the following guest post by Jeff Colgan on the oil embargo on Iran. Jeff is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University.  His research specializes on oil and international politics. Among others, he has published an award winning article on the war proneness of revolutionary […]

Andrew Therriault: In terms of race and ethnicity, NH is much more representative of the broader electorate than one might think. It is indeed much more likely to be white, non-hispanic, and native-born than the rest of the country, but in the context of analyzing the GOP primary, that hardly makes a difference—all three groups […]

The following letter is co-authored by my NYU colleague William Easterly and will appear in the January 12, 2012 edition of the NY Review of Books:. To the Editors: On September 14, 2011, Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger, was arrested by the Ethiopian authorities shortly after publishing an online column calling for […]

Alfred Stepan and Juan Linz in a review essay (gated) in the most recent issue of Perspectives on Politics. Certainly there were many important welfare improvements in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s, linked to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Civil Rights movements, and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. In fact, by […]