Blog: The Monkey Cage

As camps around the country face evictions, many are wondering how (or if) the Occupy movement can build on the national media attention the protests have received. Considering the example of the Tea Party may offer some interesting perspective. First, though the various Tea Party protests had considerable support from institutional conservative forces, including the […]

Over the next several days, Vanessa Williamson will be guestblogging. She and Theda Skocpol have co-authored “The Tea Party and The Remaking of American Conservatism” (Powells, Amazon). We covered some of their research (with John Coggin) on the Monkey Cage here– we are very happy to have her with us.

Over at his blog, Mike Sances investigates the claim that the Occupy Wall Street protests have made concerns about economic inequality an important item on the political agenda. A recent Washington Post poll found that about 60% of respondents believed there was a widening gap between the wealthy and the less well-off and that the […]

The story of Tim Groseclose’s media bias story.

Dan Hopkins, Danny Hayes, and I will be contributing regularly to Behind the Numbers, the polling blog of the Washington Post.  The announcement is here.  We hope to be contributing discussion of new scholarly literature as well as our own analyses of polling data from the Post and others.  We thank Jon Cohen and the […]

For your weekend viewing pleasure, from official Monkey Cage cartoonist Ted McCagg:

At least that’s what I think he means by saying that “we need to reboot our whole system.” Details here.

I linked a while back to the the Sunlight Foundation’s PAC Name Generator, which they created to point out the absurd vagueness of many PAC names.  But as it turns out, several actual PACs were created that matched names from the generator.  See here.  Coincidence?

One of the ways to get a handle on the current Egyptian elections is to try to compare them to the first set of post-communist elections. Some similarities are immediately apparent. Turnout is high. The forces of the “Old Regime” are apparently doing badly. But perhaps more illustrative, however are the following differences: First, the […]