Political scientists who work on Southeast Asia have historically felt marginalized from the mainstream of political science. Indeed, some the most well-known scholars of Southeast Asian politics (in particular, Benedict Anderson and James Scott) are also known as critics of…
David Frum has an interesting article at the Daily Beast on the failure of the GOP “Plan B.” The basic argument is that most all Republicans wanted some sort of resolution, but to have voted against whatever resolution was passed….
I am part of a neat collective discussion of authoritarian legislatures over at Nate Jensen‘s blog. Nate emailed me a couple of weeks ago asking if I knew any good research on legislatures and policy outputs in Malaysia or Indonesia…
Lately, I have been reading a lot of descriptions of experiments and randomization by applied researchers. One kind of phrase particularly bugs me: I frequently see language like “experimental randomization controls for potential alternative explanations…” or something similar. Specifically, I…
