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The Monkey Cage Is Moving to the Washington Post 26 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
We are very pleased to announce that The Monkey Cage is going to become part of the Washington Post. After 5+ years of writing and growing as an independent blog, we think that the Post offers a t...
The Anniversary of the March on Washington, and What It Means for Public Opnion 26 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am
Given the news of recent months – the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting, the Supreme Court’s invalidation of part of the Voting Rights Act, and controversy over the New York...
Around the Polisci Blogosphere 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Scott Lemieux: Who Cares What the Framers Thought about the Filibuster John J. Pitney: I Have A Dream—The Story in Numbers Chris Blattman: Is it Nuts to Give Money to the Poor? Gregg Murray: Reelec...
Valuable New Dataset of Constituency Level Election Results 24 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
Anyone who has ever tried to gather constituency level election-data cross-nationally should be very pleased by the following announcement I received earlier this week: American University’s School o...
Top 5 Most Popular Articles from Electoral Studies Available for Free Download Through End of October! 22 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
What a great idea! Elsevier Press has decided to make the 5 most popular articles from Electoral Studies during the first half of the year available for free download through the end of October. (Cave...
A theory of the importance of Very Serious People in the Democratic Party 22 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
Ashok Rao writes: Paul Krugman’s pet insult – “Very Serious Person” – is more important to understanding America’s policy failures than most people realize, and goes well beyond economic illiteracy. ...
(Not Much) Political Polarization in Europe 22 Aug 2013 | 11:34 am
A few weeks ago, in the course of describing a new article by Simon Munzert and Paul Bauer on political depolarization in Germany, Andy mentioned that the topic of polarization outside the U.S. “seems...
Midterm Elections in Argentina: Open, Compulsory and Simultaneous Primaries 22 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
In our continuing series of election reports, we welcome back political scientists Natalia C. Del Cogliano and Mariana L. Prats with the following post-election report on last week’s Argentinian elect...
Academic Conferences Are “Lumbering Dinosaurs.” Can Anything Change Them? 21 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
The conventional political science conference is a dinosaur, large, lumbering, and increasingly ill-suited for its environment, although extinction does not appear imminent. So begins a recent articl...
The Nefarious Plot behind the Unveiling of Sunny Obama 21 Aug 2013 | 04:23 am
The unveiling of the new White House dog brings to mind, naturally, the seminal research on the strategic use of presidential pets—which was detailed here many months ago. Here is how I summarized th...
