Potpourri By John Sides on September 8, 2013 How to reduce polarization? Better journalism. Alleged side effects of majoring in political science. Tim Harford on the Ostroms. Politics everywhere: many fewer fires, but the same number of firefighters. Reporting from the APSA panel on the NSF. Rep. Lipinski noted that a more immediate concern than the reauthorization of the NSF is Rep. Lamar Smith’s proposed Higher Quality Research Act. For more on that, see here. One set of objections is here. Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on June 19, 2013 Politico’s “call it” crutch. British academics making an impact. Congressman wins crucial Wu-Tang endorsement. (Hat tip to D-Hayz.) Intelligent glasses for professors. Research Shows, a new blog on political science and public policy that’s hosted by the Bangor Daily News. (Hat tip to Amy Fried.) Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on June 3, 2013 Boris Shor on the ideologies of possible appointments to fill Lautenberg’s seat. The increasing social liberalism of older Americans. (Abortion attitudes don’t fit this pattern, however—for any age group.) Daniel Kahneman on behavioral economics and psychology. A defense of the linear probability model. #shotsfired indeed. Speaking of shots fired, Merle Haggard leads an interesting life. Via @prisonrodeo. Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on May 10, 2013 Great new data from Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty on the ideologies of state legislatures. The length of the average dissertation. Polisci dissertations are pretty long, it turns out. [Hat tip to Eric L.] Norm Ornstein on presidential leadership. The Michael Moore of the Grade-School Lunchroom. Tiger moms don’t make better parents. Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on April 19, 2013 The perils of wonkery. I don’t agree with a lot of this, but it is worth pondering. Reverse causality and Reinhart-Rogoff. Who shares data? Wonkblog book club on Ira Katznelson’s Fear Itself. New report on polisci job market (summarized here). Not auspicious. Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on March 29, 2013 New issue of Richmond Law Review focused on election law. Links to articles via Rick Hasen (may be gated). Neat Sunlight Foundation study of immigration lobbying. Interactive widget here. Nice round-up of historical polling data on gay rights. Hat tip to Karlyn Bowman. William Bowen on on-line education and MOOCs. For you baseball fanatics: The Slurve. Texas eggheads breaking up. Continue Reading
Potpourri: Political Parties Edition By John Sides on March 19, 2013 Greg Koger on the Hastert rule. Jon Bernstein on the Boehner rule. Bernstein and Hans Noel on what parties want. What the RNC wants. It seems they’ve been wanting it for a while. But it won’t be easy to get. Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on March 7, 2013 How filibuster reform begot Rand Paul’s filibuster. Rand Paul, ideology, and partisanship. The drone lobby. Gerrymandering everywhere (hat tip to Daniel Lippman). The rise of Liberty University. More on racial prejudice in the covered states, following on this post. Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on February 26, 2013 “If I Could Hold a Seminar for Political Journalists.” The politics of attacking political science. The sequester is bad, but not bad enough. Theory will survive Big Data. The social science of the school cafeteria. Via Kevin Collins. Crooked Timber has been hosting a symposium on Knight and Johnson’s The Priority of Democracy. (Scroll to see posts.) Alex Tabarrok adds these thoughts. Review of Google Glass. Washington DC, from space. Continue Reading
Potpourri By John Sides on February 18, 2013 Does on-line education have a business model? Better late than never. Regrets, the president of Emory University has a few. The strategery of immigration reform. Bourbonomics. Continue Reading
