While I can't attend the workshop (lame prior commitment with stupid friends), I would like to associate myself, in a wholly disinterested manner, with this part of Dr. Walt's comment: What is also needed is a change in academic practice, including the criteria that are...
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Not as funny as the law school bit, but just as accurate: Via.
All your Bloggingheads are belong to us now.
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 seats reserved for "major" political science bloggers. I live-tweeted the proceedings, and unlike Dan Drezner...
Alex Parets live-blogged yesterday's ISA panel on blogging, policy, and the political science discipline. Check it out. I should further note the blogs of the various questioners and participants, including.
In about an hour, Charli and I will sit on a roundtable titled "Do International Relations Blogs Inform Practice? Theory? Both? Neither?" with Stephen Walt, Dan Drezner, William Winecoff, and.
Rest in peace.
In response to Jeff Rosen's recent argument that Elena Kagan blew it at the recent oral arguments on a campaign finance case, Yglesias argues that oral arguments at the Supreme.
The possibility that McCain's choice of Palin really did significantly affect the 2008 elections is one I find genuinely fascinating. The question is obviously a good example of the fact.
It appears that Sam Huntington has passed. Soldier and the State is a fine book. Many of his other works I can't stand, to the point of repugnance. It's fair to say, though, that virtually every graduate student who has passed through a political science...
Bob Somerby, responding to CNN's exit polls:It’s hard to believe that those data are accurate. Did four percent of last week’s voters really vote for someone other than Bush or.
Ahem.... I guess that I've always been mildly curious about how often this goes on. In eleven years of teaching, I have never been solicited once, nor (and you'll have.