Abandoned Footnotes

 In case anyone is still reading this, I have a big data-rich post on my Github site on using ChatGPT aka GPT-3.5-Turbo and Claude (the Ant...

(A footnote on Crabtree, Kern, and Siegel, “ Cults of Personality, Preference Falsification, and the Dictator’s Dilemma ”, Journal of Theore...

In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”...

Happy solstice, everyone! I have not been very consistent this year about writing in this blog, despite my resolution last year . After a ...

(Of mostly local interest. I speak only for myself, not for my colleagues or anyone else associated with Victoria University of Wellington, ...

(Reflections on the nature of charisma and charismatic authority. Applications to current events and people are left as an exercise for the ...

(Of interest mostly to political scientists or other users of country-year democracy data) Quick announcement: I’ve just updated my democr...