when LibDemVoice somehow picks up a conference paper of yours (this one presented at EPOP in Essex mid September of this year). Long story short: the electoral consequences of raising taxes impacts different parties differently. Caveat: the version cited would seem to be an earlier...
academic conferences
I was in the audience for the APSA panel that Scott refers to below, although to maintain my anti-establishment cred* I sat in the back, away from the front row.
According to The Guardian, "managers" hired by universities in the UK have increased a modest 33% in the last five years. Academic staff have increased by 10% in that time.
Some initial tidbits from conference papers I read or heard presented while AWOL: 1) At a panel on pirates: Isaac Kamola: The recent securitization of Somali piracy is a pretty big mystery given how few vital interests are at stake. Peter Andreas pointed out that...