Abandoned Footnotes

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

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

The Manchus had their own aristocracy of a kind, formed from the descendants of Nurhaci and other famous warriors, and from the powerful C...

(More substantive content soon! This is mostly of interest to political scientists, R users, and people concerned with the measurement of d...

My new book, Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization has been out for a few weeks ( Palgrave , Amazon ...

(Apologies for the lack of posting - I've been finishing some big projects. This is of interest primarily to people who care about quant...

About six months ago, Tom Pepinsky wrote a post , on the occasion of Lee Kuan Yew’s death, where he argued graphically that Lee Kuan Yew’s ...