In a review of psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s recent book, “The Righteous Mind,” William Saletan writes: You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong. . . . Haidt diverges from other psychologists who have analyzed the left’s […]
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Tweets/likes crossover
To continue from Josh Tucker’s discussion . . . I posted an entry (“Voting patterns of America’s whites, from the masses to the elites”) both here and at the sister blog. From the Monkey Cage: 51 tweets, 19 likes. From Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: 15 tweets, 66 likes. An odd non-monotonicity. I’m […]
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Voting patterns of America’s whites, from the masses to the elites
Within any education category, richer people vote more Republican. In contrast, the pattern of education and voting is nonlinear. High school graduates are more Republican than non-HS grads, but after that, the groups with more education tend to vote more Democratic. At the very highest education level tabulated in the survey, voters with post-graduate degrees […]
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Coups and Democracy
The coup in Mali is widely seen as a major setback for democracy, not just in Mali but potentially in the region as a whole. Coups are indeed the single most important proximate cause of the downfall of democratic governments. Yet, a paper by Hein Goemans and Nikolay Marinov provides some grounds for optimism. Goemans and […]
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More Thoughts on The Big Sort
This is a guest post from political scientist James Gimpel, in response to the exchange between Abrams and Fiorina and Bishop. The links are mine. ***** First, I like The Big Sort, and I have assigned it in undergraduate classes. It is well-written, compared to most other options, and provokes a lot of thought and […]
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How to Get Ahead in China’s Communist Party
Last week, the National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) removed an important provincial party secretary from office, stirring unrest in China and even suggestions that a coup is in the works. Dan Drezner analyzes the issue, referencing the American Political Science Review article by John Freeman and Dennis Quinn I blogged about earlier this […]
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Mitt’s Etch-a-Sketch
From official Monkey Cage cartoonist Ted McCagg:
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Public opinion and the Supreme Court: How can the Administration best defend the ACA, and how can its opponents best attack it, beyond the confines of legal briefs and oral argument in the courtroom?
The following is a guest post by Tom Clark, a professor of political science at Emory University and expert on judicial politics who recently wrote a book, Judicial Independence. Clark writes: On Monday, the Supreme Court hears oral argument in the expected-to-be-landmark case considering a key provision of the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. […]
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Don’t Blame the Rules for the GOP’s Unsettled Primary
Josh Putnam and I have a new op-ed at Bloomberg View that takes on a few myths about this year’s Republican primary. In short, we show that: The GOP’s delegate allocation process did not switch wholesale from a winner-take-all rule prior to 2012 to a proportional rule in 2012. This is a common misconception, despite […]
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Would an “Etch-a-Sketch” Attack Actually Work?
Brendan Nyhan concludes a great post on the Etch-a-Sketch comment by saying: We’re currently 158 days from the Republican convention, and “Etch a Sketch-gate” will likely prove to be just as inconsequential. By the time the general election rolls around, the incident will most likely be forgotten. I agree and said as much on Twitter. […]
