A large scholarship claims that states led by women are less conflictual than states led by men. However, it is theoretically unclear why female leaders
Randall Collins, whose course she was taking when she was writing in the black notebooks, put it: ‘‘She got in deep enough so that not
The NYRB highlights an eloquent voice: “I kept getting books in English that I enjoyed reading, most of them Western literature,” he recounts at one
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Harold Pollack writes in Vox about a paper (here) analyzing credit card reform. The CARD
That is the title of an op-ed on US crime by Thomas Abt. To summarize, the increase in homicides appears real, but there is no
There was once a great queen of Alt Da Rann and Leia was her name. War had sprung up between her people and those of
I was wondering what to do with my undergraduate seminar for seniors, when three weeks ago this arrived in my inbox: Hi Christopher, My name
I posed to the room: “Suppose you were walking by a pond on the way to school,” I asked them (even though there are not
Half of the world’s population lives in the yellow and half lives in the black (fixed) How political science blogging got mainstream Along with several
But most parts of me do not. Background: Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, asked his editor at Rolling Stone if he could submit
I decided to overhaul my Master’s level course this year, adding new material and dropping old. I was laboring under the reading and re-reading and
Source and story. Hat tip to several people in my Facebook feed.
Joseph Kony became one of the most notorious and sinister warlords of the 21st century, in part due to a viral campaign. But monsters (and
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The world’s first Dengue Fever vaccine has been approved for use in Mexico, Brazil, and
Experimental evaluations of policies or programs are prospective. As such they typically require deep engagement between researchers and implementers in processes of policy formulation, beneficiary
Enter RedStar OS: North Korea’s own Linux based operating system, designed to monitor its users and remain resilient to any attempts to modify or otherwise
Source.
That’s the title of a Vox article today: A lot of what we know about how the government works — what motivates politicians, how exactly
[Update: You should just go and read Jesse Singal’s fantastic summary, which is much more instructive than the paper abstract I post below. I’m predicting
Heather Royer, an economist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, thinks she has hit on a way. In partnership with a Fortune 500 company,
