Turns out there was, like, weather or something, and none of us will be in town on Thursday. Wind and water permitting, LGM highly recommends that all NOLA readers and visitors pursue their own personal paths to intoxication. The Management
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Hey all, Assuming that the APSA conference goes forward and that the city isn't substantially damaged by the storm, three members of LGM (Farley, Watkins, and Brockington) will be holding.
Excellent article on the development of Japanese carrier aviation in the months before Pearl Harbor: The picture that emerges is of an enemy carrier force whose capabilities in late 1941.
Bobo's fantasies about elites and bipartisanship notwithstanding, to the extent that the British system is "functional" where the American system isn't, it's because the Westminster system allows majorities to govern and the Madisonian system often does not. And I do think the former is preferable,...
Interesting article on junior faculty and exercise: In the quest for tenure, physical activity is the first casualty, according to a recent study of Canadian assistant professors that its authors.
Congrats to John Sides! I should say that I have some substantive (and substantial) disagreements with John's characterization of the role that blogging should play in political science, but that's.
If the methodology shows JFK as being substantially to the left of LBJ or FDR, it's pretty limited. Or, really, it works better for members of Congress than presidents -- as you can see with the JFK/LBJ comparison, getting more legislation passed makes you look...
On perverse incentives in the Great Leap Forward: Here is what Kung and Chen argue happened in China. In the hierarchy of the CCP, the three highest levels are politburo.
This has inspired me to work on a hill giant professor build. ...and we should never neglect the Cylons, of course.
The recent Sheen-stravaganza brings these thoughts to mind. Bernstein: Remember: if you're reading this blog, odds are good that you're at least in the top 10% of all Americans in political knowledge, and more likely you're in the top 1%. And for those of us...
This is academic inside baseball, but since that's obviously a disproportionate percentage of our audience, I'd thought I'd give some publicity to the issue here. The political science journal Gender.
I've said this before, but I think it's worth adding a few caveats to Dylan Matthews's roundup of political science literature on the Supreme Courts. Particularly when the attitudinal model.