Blog: The Monkey Cage

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, […]

Registration is now open for the 5th Annual NYU-CESS Experimental Political Science Conference taking place on March 2-3, 2012. Information about the conference is available here, including the schedule of presentations (Friday and Saturday) and information concerning special rates at local hotels. You can register for the conference here. Registration continues to be free, and […]

Cranky Reader: Sides, you’re not just a moron, but a coward. Me: Say what? CR: You’ve been hyping the “inevitability of Romney” since, oh, 2008.  Now the South Carolina primary has made you look like an idiot.  And 24 hours later you still haven’t blogged about it.  Coward. Me: Oh, I see. CR: Admit you […]

Wayne Folta points us to this list.

A vote for someone other than Romney is not necessarily a vote against Romney.

Despite the arc of news coverage this week, Mittmentum still rules the day.

This YouTube video was posted on the Democratic Rapid Response YouTube channel. According to the information on the side of the post, the last activity on the channel was yesterday. As you’ll notice, there is actually plenty of footage from the debate itself. This means the video – which looks pretty good – must have […]

So apparently Santorum did win the Iowa caucus.  Maybe.  Eight precincts’ numbers can’t be certified.  Justin Wolfers tweets: Iowa, you are a joke: GOP finds errors in caucus results from 131 precincts, & has no count for 8. I attended only one caucus meeting out of the hundreds across Iowa.  But let me use that […]