Here is a pretty cool map of precinct-level support in three Seattle municipal races from last month: mayoral (Ed Murray v incumbent Mike McGinn), one city council seat (socialist Kshama Sawant against incumbent Richard Conlin) and support for Seattle Proposition 1, public financing for campaigns. Murray and...
Author: Dave Brockington
Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington in 2000. I worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for 16 academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I also currently serve as joint campaign coordinator for the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Constituency Labour Party.
The Mariners sign 36 year-old "scrappy" veteran Willie Bloomquist, possessor of both a pedigree with the M's, and a local connection, to a two-year contract at between $2.5 and $3.
Or so states perhaps the most interesting email I received today on my work account (just nudging out a solicitation to submit a manuscript to the Beijing Law Review). Said.
Distasteful on several levels, "Black Friday" annually generates stories such as this one,[*] to the point where we need Black Friday Death Count, keeping track so you don't have to. Black Friday, at least, isn't as abhorrent as actually opening, thus forcing employees to work, on...
A few days ago the Prime Minister published an op-ed in the Financial Times (paywall) on the back of Government musings about placing restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants to.
One of the things I teach here at Plymouth is a MA seminar on methodology and research design (for the MA in International Relations, but that's another story). I'm in.
This has been making the rounds and is worth a read: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang? It's a slightly different take on the "academia as a dual labor market" argument we all know and love, with some illustrative empirical data, such as this: How...
The Guardian ran this a couple of days ago, written by an academic who finally grew frustrated enough to pack it in. The takeaway: Universities in the 21st century no.
I'm a little late to this wrap up, but both professional and personal obligations have occupied a great deal of my time over the past few weeks. The decks are.
Apparently, this past summer an "original documentary" aired somewhere in the depths of cable pushing a TWA 800 conspiracy, and this article critiques this "three missile theory". Conspiracy theories, by their nature, can be comforting to those who need to make sense of the world...
Last week I had a seven day early morning run on BBC Radio Devon. It turns out that the Monday through Friday spots are archived (but not the weekend spots).
In March, I posted "The Commericalization of Academia: A Case Study" to LGM. This past weekend, Rob drew my attention to this review essay by Christopher Newfield published in the Los.