Blog: The Monkey Cage

With all eyes on North Korea’s coming missile launch, we are pleased to welcome the following guest post from Professor James Clay Moltz of the Naval Postgraduate School, the author of Asia’s Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks: Pyongyang’s upcoming test of its Unha-3 rocket with a satellite aboard has thrown recent […]

In general, be wary of any claim that there is a single path to victory, particularly if that path involves a candidate’s personality. That’s the conclusion of my new post at 538.  It is both a reaction to recent polling and commentary on Romney’s “empathy gap,” and a brief tour of some political science research […]

Now that Rick Santorum has suspended his presidential campaign, we are going to see the inevitable slew of articles on how important/challenging it will be for Romney to win over Santorum’s voters for the general election (see here and here for example). From the perspective of someone who studies comparative politics (otherwise known as domestic […]

From Ezra Zuckerman, the famous sociologist. Pari passu, every single one of these seems to me to apply to political science journals too.

Any elected official who thinks the public is squarely on board with higher rates against upper-income earners should consider these results, then, and think twice. From a Wall Street Journal op-ed by political scientists Brian Gaines and Doug Rivers.  Here is the crux of their findings.  On the one hand: Sixty-one percent of respondents favored […]

Walter Dean Burnham and Thomas Ferguson write about Romney’s combination of corporate support and difficulty connecting with evangelical Christian voters. They write: In the general election, moreover, Romney will have to reach well beyond his base, to independents and those less predisposed toward all things Republican. By contrast with past GOP nominees Romney’s appeal looks […]

I received the following email: Hi, I’m a freelance journalist working on a piece for The Daily Beast (you can see my past work here) tentatively titled “How To Be A Smarter Campaign Consumer.” The basic idea: Now that Rick Santorum has dropped out of the GOP primary and we’re set to enter the thick […]

Charli Carpenter’s presentation at the International Studies Association meetings is not only a marvel in terms of its usage of new media for presentational purposes but also in terms of its analysis on how new media has changed the relationship of scholars to the outside world. The focus is on international relations but it is […]

Evangelicalism is the most potent worldview force in conservatizing Latino political attitudes, with secularity and Catholicism influential to a lesser degree as well. From a newly published piece (gated; ungated) by Troy Gibson and Christopher Hare.  Here’s a table from the article, showing the predicted probability of being a Democrat, independent, or Republican for Latinos […]

Is it Josh Putnam at Frontloading Headquarters?