Abandoned Footnotes

In a lovely piece published nearly three decades ago , the French historian Paul Veyne noted that much “propaganda” art throughout history ...

I've been reading a lot about various dictators this summer. And again and again I am struck by the existence of what one might call “e...

(As I intimated a while ago, I’ve grown weary of the concept of legitimacy . This is an experiment in thinking about how one might understan...

An anonymous reader points me to a very interesting paper by Victor Shih  on "' Nauseating' Displays of Loyalty: Monitoring the...

[In 1977] the Libyan leader suggested that in order to achieve self-sufficiency every Libyan family had to raise chickens in the home. The c...

From the department of perverse incentives, a new APSR paper by James Kai-Sing Kung and Shuo Chen ["The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: C...