I was summoned for jury duty today, something that’s never happened to me before. Juries are interesting to social scientists because–at least at the summons stage–they are the closest thing that you get to a random sample of the people…
Via Scott Wolford, I come across this interesting time waster question about what three arguments or concepts have had the most impact on me as a political scientist. Q: Of all the arguments/findings/concepts you’ve learned in political science, which one has…
I recently attended a really interesting conference at Penn State called Global Asias. Like many interdisciplinary “pan-Asia” conferences, I found myself representing both the token Southeast Asianist and the token political scientist. Most everyone else was a China humanities person;…
